Michael Mulgrew on “The John Gambling Show”
UFT President Michael Mulgrew was interviewed this morning on WOR News Talk Radio’s “The John Gambling Show.” He spoke about tenure, teacher evaluations, charter schools, and more. Listen to the...
View ArticleTenure and Teacher Evaluation: The Real Story
AFT President Randi Weingarten speaks out on tenure and teacher evaluation on CBS News’ Sunday Morning show.
View ArticleHow Do We Identify Great Teachers? A New Report Offers Some Ideas
A thought-provoking new report about teacher assessment was recently released, and hopefully will serve as a voice of moderation in the debates over value-added scores and changing tenure standards...
View ArticleDFER: Lemmings Are Us
Michael Winerip’s New York Times column on the implementation of Tennessee’s teacher evaluation system, “In Tennessee, Following the Rules for Evaluations Off a Cliff,” provides a picture of how wrong...
View ArticleNew York Teacher
Highlights from the Nov. 10 issue of New York Teacher: Plan in works to improve pension fund returns UFT President Michael Mulgrew, City Comptroller John Liu, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other...
View ArticleNew York Teacher
Highlights from the Dec. 22 issue of New York Teacher: Hard work for economic fairness pays off UFT members, allies lead successful fight for first education funding increase from state in three years...
View ArticleIn Bad Faith
There is but one conclusion that can be drawn from the NYC Department of Education’s last minute walk out of negotiations over a teacher evaluation system for 33 schools placed in the Transformation...
View ArticleHighlights of the Teacher Evaluation Agreement andDetails of the New Appeals...
On Feb. 16, thanks to Governor Cuomo’s intervention, the UFT reached a groundbreaking agreement with the city on an appeals process for New York City teacher ratings that includes the third-party,...
View ArticleSetting The Record Straight On Teacher Evaluations: Scoring and the Role of...
(This is the first of two posts on the new teacher evaluations, focusing on the overall scoring of the evaluations and the role of standardized exams. The second post will take up the question of...
View ArticleNew TV Ad: “Moving Forward”
The UFT on Jan. 4 launched a television ad campaign urging Mayor Michael Bloomberg to put politics aside and reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system. The 30-second spot, titled “Moving...
View ArticleTeacher Evaluation: Lesson One
Let’s begin at the end, with final scoring. We all know that New York State created an evaluation system for New York City on June 1. And we also know that that there are three subcomponents in the new...
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