The Workrate of the Reformy
Tomorrow is the Worst. Party. Ever. Band rehearsal must be taking up a lot of time for Derrell Bradford.
Because B4K has had three posts up in the last 30 days at their website's blog - one of which is a reprint of a Rhee op-ed in the Philly Inquirer. And the B4K Facebook page has far fewer posts per week than the not-financed-by-a-hedge-fund-manager Stop the Freeze NJ page.
Seriously: I look at these "reformy" sites and I don't see a lot of work: not much research, not much advocacy, not much... anything. What are these people doing? What sort of workrate do their funders expect? Are they pleased with the return on their investment?
Because B4K has had three posts up in the last 30 days at their website's blog - one of which is a reprint of a Rhee op-ed in the Philly Inquirer. And the B4K Facebook page has far fewer posts per week than the not-financed-by-a-hedge-fund-manager Stop the Freeze NJ page.
Seriously: I look at these "reformy" sites and I don't see a lot of work: not much research, not much advocacy, not much... anything. What are these people doing? What sort of workrate do their funders expect? Are they pleased with the return on their investment?
Heckuva Job, Eva!
We need more charter schools because they're so darn good for kids:
More than a third of the staff members at a Harlem charter school run by the Success Charter Network have left the school within the last several months, challenging an organization that prides itself on the training and support it offers its teachers.The unusually high turnover at Harlem Success Academy 3 and the network-wide issue of teachers quitting mid-year led the founder and chief executive of the Success Charter Network, Eva
What Color Is the Sky in Nick Kristof's World?
Nick Kristof, 2009:
First, good teachers matter more than anything; they are astonishingly important. It turns out that having a great teacher is far more important than being in a small class, or going to a good school with a mediocre teacher. A Los Angeles study suggested that four consecutive years of having a teacher from the top 25 percent of the pool would erase the black-white testing gap.Complete garbage - I mean, total, complete garbage - but whatev.
And Now, A Moment of Logic and Reason
Yeah, kinda shocking when you're covering education policy, but every once in a while, someone turns on his or her brain:
A new teacher evaluation system will be implemented statewide next year before administrators and educators have sufficient time to evaluate the success of its pilot program and make necessary adjustments, according to the New Jersey Association of School Administrators (NJASA).The teacher evaluation system is a result of an executive order of the governor, which
