NJ Education News Round-Up, 6/8/13
Let's get right to it:Debunking Propaganda on Teacher Evaluation
I have a post over at Jersey Jazzman on how the rhetoric out of NJDOE on teacher evaluation is becoming increasingly like propaganda:
I have a post over at Jersey Jazzman on how the rhetoric out of NJDOE on teacher evaluation is becoming increasingly like propaganda:
Again: I am not going to criticize the motivations of any of the members of EPAC. But this op-ed piece is not helpful: it evades addressing the central concerns with AchieveNJ, and it asks teachers to happily sign on to a system of evaluation that has no support in research. Unless and until the NJDOE is prepared to seriously and substantively answer the criticisms leveled against these rigid, top-down, unsupported regulations, no teacher should buy into what comes across as little better than propaganda.The truth is that NJDOE still has not addressed the serious, substantive criticisms about AchieveNJ. Education Commissioner Chris Cerf and his staff talk about "giving administrators information," but they are subverting the
