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nightcap
November 9, 2009
Remainders: Grading New York State
- Center for American Progress gives New York State a “B” for hiring teachers, an “A” for firing them.
- Young teachers are big on incentive pay, but give standardized tests poor grades.
- Deborah Meier argues for teacher assessments developed on a school-by-school basis.
- Senate Dems are not getting behind Gov. Paterson’s call for major education and health cuts.
- The U.S. DOE released guidelines for the 2nd round of stabilization fund money.
- It’s looking like RttT will focus heavily on science, technology, engineering and math.
- Corey Bunje Bower wonders if young teachers’ hopefulness actually hurts them in the end.
- An out-of-work inexperienced art teacher asks what he/she can do to become more employable.
- If being paid on commission doesn’t work for Macy’s employees, will it work for teachers?
- Norm Scott says Mulgrew’s silence on NYS’s data firewall means little, as the law was a PR stunt.
- One blogger says the Bronx English teacher’s story highlights the need for due process in the UFT contract.
- Michigan’s math and science teachers can get scholarships to work in high-needs schools.
- Bonuses should go to entire schools, not to individual teachers, writes Jay Mathews.
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