Karen Lewis on the Vergara Decision and What It Means
Karen Lewis points to the corporate boot-licking study by Raj Chetty that speculates on how much income would be added if the worst teachers (based on VAM, hah!) were replaced by average teachers. The Chetty study was used as the principal documentation to support the court decision in California to roll back teacher tenure. Read here excerpts from Bruce Baker's takedown of the Chetty study.
Brian Jones: "If teacher tenure prevented achievement, Mississippi would have stellar schools. . ."
from NYTimes:Brian Jones, a former New York City public school teacher, is the Green Party's candidate for lieutenant governor of New York. He blogs at "No Struggle, No Progress." He is on Twitter.UPDATED JUNE 12, 2014, 12:55 PMAmerica is the land of misdirected anger. This time, teachers in California are on the receiving end.That is not to say that public school parents in the state sh
Brian Jones: "If tenure prevented achievement, Mississippi would have stellar schools..."
From the NYTimes:Brian Jones, a former New York City public school teacher, is the Green Party's candidate for lieutenant governor of New York. He blogs at "No Struggle, No Progress." He is on Twitter.UPDATED JUNE 12, 2014, 12:55 PMAmerica is the land of misdirected anger. This time, teachers in California are on the receiving end.That is not to say that public school parents in the stat
6-11-14 Schools Matter: BATs in DC July 28
Schools Matter: BATs in DC July 28by Jim Horn / 1h Diane Ravitch's Mutating Common Core PositionsAs the opposition to Common Core has spread and deepened, Diane Ravitch's position has undergone a strange metamorphosis. She had this to say at Huffington Post on March 24 in a piece entitled "The Fatal Flaw of the Common Core Standards:". . . .The complaints are coming from all sides: from