NEA President Says Get Rid Of Step And Lane Increases For Teachers
Time to get rid of Dennis Van Roekel:Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, or NEA, came out strongly against single-salary teacher-compensation systems at an Education Writers Association, or EWA, event held earlier this month in Chicago. “Let’s get rid of step and lane,” he declared. “I don’t like it.” Van Roekel’s comments about trading in one-size-fits-all salary s
Another Bloomberg Innovation That Should Go The Way Of The Betamax
The Mayor of Money defended his pedestrian plazas today:“The pedestrian plazas have been phenomenally successful,” Bloomberg said at a Brooklyn press conference Thursday. At Tuesday night’s debate, both Bill de Blasio and Joe Lhota said they were unsure if they would keep the pedestrian plazas at Times Square and Herald Square that have closed Broadway to cars in place. But Bloomberg said the ve
Let The UFT Leadership Know How You Feel About ADVANCE, Danielson And The Common Core
Here was my response to Peter Goodman, Unity hack extraordinaire, who left some spin at Gotham Schools on the new evaluation system that went like this:First Goodman:On the just released state teacher evaluation 50% of teachers were "highly effective" and 41% "effective" with 1% "ineffective," these do include NYC, our plan just started, so, just maybe, teachers were
Newsday Poll: 47% Say Limit Charter School Growth, 40% Say Increase Charter School Growth
From a Newsday poll on the NYC mayor's race:According to the poll, de Blasio's plan to limit the growth of charter schools is favored by only 47 percent, while 40 percent echo Lhota's position that the city needs more charter schools.While de Blasio's plan to limit charter school growth may be supported by "only" 47%, that's 7% more than support Lhota's plan to increase charter school gr
UFT Spins The Evaluation System As A Win
NYC Educator has a post up this morning noting that Peter Goodman, retired Unity hack extraordinaire, left a comment at Gotham Charter Schools on their post about the just released teacher evaluation results.Goodman wrote the following:On the just released state teacher evaluation 50% of teachers were "highly effective" and 41% "effective" with 1% "ineffective," thes
CEO's Should Lay Off The Common Core Propaganda And Focus On Their Own Businesses
The latest business genius to weigh in on the Common Core - the CEO of Xerox.My first thought reading this opinion piece was, Xerox is still in business?Huh.Who knew?I sure didn't.So I decided to check and see what's going on for them in the news.It's not good, that's for sure.Xerox Glitch Halts Food-Stamp UseSEC Probes Xerox Unit's Accounting PracticesThat SEC probe into the Xerox unit accounting
10-23-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: A Syracuse Mother Thanks Her Children's TeachersThis made the rounds on the Internet yesterday, but in case you haven't seen it, give it a listen.It should be required listening at SED and the Board of Regents, where they think their "objective" and "scientific" APPR teacher evaluation system measures the true worth and value of teachers.That evaluation s