Is Weingarten Really Against VAM? Or Was Her Conversion “A Sham”?
In January 2014, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten finally stated that she is completely opposed to using value added modeling (VAM) as a component on teacher evaluations. As Audrey Amrein-Beardsley notes on her blog, Vamboozled: …Randi Weingarten, the current president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has (finally) expressed her full opposition against
AFT’s Weingarten Supports Malloy, and Likely, Cuomo
On June 16, 2014, I wrote a post in which I wondered what American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten would say on June 17 at the official AFL-CIO endorsement of the re-election of blatantly-anti-teacher, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy. Here is what the Connecticut Mirror had to offer by way of Weingarten’s participation in endorsing an undeniably public-education-destroye
Peter Smagorinsky: Response to the new NCTQ Teacher Prep Review
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PREVIEW: New Film Opening June 17, 2014 – “NCTQ Hill”
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NCTQ: “their remedies are part of the disease”
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6-16-14 @ The Chalk Face
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