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Some drivel in the Wall Street Journal this morning that Cuomo is caving on "accountability"  for teachers - they're very sad...

The Regents voted for a four year moratorium from using state test scores in teacher evaluations - but there's a catch: A four-year m...

It seems that even Governor Cuomo knows that his APPR teacher evaluation system, with its dramatic shifts in VAM scores and teachers getting...

This story is behind a paywall at Capital NY but here's the summary from their morning email update: GOOD TEACHERS, POOR SCHOOLS? DIS...

Sheri Lederman is suing the state over her VAM. In 2012-2013, she received 14 out of 20 on her VAM score as part of the APPR teacher evalu...

So-called big news out of Long Island: Roger Tilles of Great Neck, now in his 11th year on the state Board of Regents, told a teachers c...

Gotham Schools: The first day of school is Sept. 9, but it will be at least a month before New York City teachers know exactly how they...

NYSED Commissioner MaryEllen Elia spoke to some teachers at Cairo, NY yesterday. At the beginning of her remarks, she teased out that she ...

...You can cut the person off by asking if they're sure the "research" they're citing isn't horseshit: A painstakin...

There's this myth perpetuated by education reformers, politicians and the media that "bad teachers" can't be fired, that o...

Sheri and Bruce Lederman argued before a judge this week that VAM was "irrational...a rating created in a black box that spit out pred...

Carol Burris has a piece in the Washington Post about Sheri Lederman's case against NYSED over her VAM score, which went from 14 out of...

From the NY Times: Amplify, a much-heralded push by News Corporation into digital education, led by Joel Klein , a former New York City...

Oral arguments begin in the Sheri Lederman VAM case today. Diane Ravitch posted information from Lederman's lawyer, her husband Bruce,...

Here is the best pushback against the coming reform effort from Governor Andrew Cuomo and Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch - the story of She...

Lyndsey Layton reports the Center for Union Facts is attacking AFT President Randi Weingarten again: The 11-page mailing, on expensive pa...

From Daily Politics: Cuomo also defended his Common Core implementation panel’s recommendation that math and English assessment tests ...

I spent today getting "normed" for the ELA Regents exam. I have been tasked with grading the Part 3 component - the Question #26...

Okay, they're looking for a high failure rate at SED on the ELA Regents exam, that's for sure. Students need to get 20 out of 25 m...

Normally when I finish proctoring the ELA Regents and see some of my students outside the building after the test, they say that test wasn...