A UFT chapter leader recalls what he says was a sunnier time for teacher evaluations. (Labor Lessons)
More experts warn about problems with the Teacher Data Reports the city is releasing. (DNAInfo)
A roundup of city Teacher Data Reports debate — past, present, and probably future. (Teacher Beat)
The New York Times will publish the reports tomorrow and wants teachers to weigh in. (SchoolBook)
A look at whether value-added models like the TDRs’ controls for students’ socioeconomics. (Shanker)
Stepping inside Opportunity Charter School, which won the right to stay open for two years. (DNAInfo)
The fight over Williamsburg Success Charter School is between old-timers and gentrifiers. (Capital NY)
Teacher Stephen Lazar is helping to open the sustainability-themed Harvest School. (Outside the Cave)
A Queens school aide was charged with molesting students in the fifth arrest this month. (City Room)
D.C. wants to be able to authorize charter schools again; it lost the right in 2007. (D.C. Schools Insider)
A former textbook developer tells all about the state of education publishing. (Salon via Core Knowledge)
Teachers at an L.A. school are attempting turnaround with a new curriculum. (Zocalo Public Square)
http://nyceducator.com/ NYC Educator
NY Times wants teachers to weigh in so it can feel better about publishing junk science and humiliating non-celebrity individuals who neither want nor seek such attention. How many poorly rated teachers, particularly those poorly rated for no good reason, will wish further attention from the entity that just got through dragging them through the mud?
DebbyNYC
It’s interesting to note that every single person complaining about “the old way” of teaching, learning and observing, was educated under that old way. Are *they* all educationally deficient?
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