Read at HuffPo (Huffington Post) Last week, as New York City’s teachers were wrapping up their mid-winter recess, the NYC Department of Education set off a bomb. Lifting an embargo on the publication of Teacher Data Reports, which rate teachers on the basis of their students’ test scores, the DOE …
Read at HuffPo (Huffington Post) On the eve of the Florida primary, as Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney battled it out, the New York Times offered up “Years of Despair Add to Uncertainty in Florida Race.” Among the afflicted, leading the pack, was a preschool teacher. With her home in …
Read at HuffPo (Huffington Post) As Father’s Day disappeared into Monday morning, the Times Union of Albany posted a positively eloquent editorial. “Still failing after all these years” highlights New York’s persistent achievement gap, declaring it “as insidious as if it was the result of outright bigotry or class warfare” …
