Perdido Street School

Cuomo's just throwing everybody under the bus these days - this time it's the Board of Regents (following on his former aides, Perco...

Had some fun on Twitter yesterday with a couple of union hacks, one the PR guy from NYSUT, that went something like this: @perdidostscho...

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...

This statement from Dick Parsons, Cuomo's Common Core Task Force chairman, is laughable: Gov. Andrew Cuomo ’s task force on academic...

I know, I know - you're thinking there's no way that the guy who just increased the test score component in his APPR teacher evaluat...

The PDK/Gallup poll has a decent majority opposing teacher evaluations tied to test scores - it's 55%-45% opposed. But when you loo...

The high scores on standardized tests that Chinese students garner have not brought increased wisdom to the geniuses running the countr...

I've been hitting on Governor Cuomo's remark to reporters late last week that students should take Common Core state tests because t...

Commenters in this post point out how, if Governor Cuomo gets his way on teacher evaluation reform and makes test scores 40% of a teacher...

From Patrick Healy at the NY Times: A new Tony Award will be given annually to a theater teacher who has made a “monumental impact” on t...

Via Chaz , we learn that the state released APPR teacher evaluation results for NYC teachers and there was some difference between how NYC t...

Two stories from over the weekend show that the statistics and data issued by NYSED Commissioner John King and his merry men and women in re...

The NY Post called NYSED Commissioner King and Regents Chancellor Tisch on their test score scam. Because it is such an important story, h...

As many of us predicted, NYSED and the Board of Regents rigged the state testr scores this year to go up slightly so they could point to ...

In case you missed this story in the NY Post: Students at the troubled William Cullen Bryant High School in Queens were falsely labeled ...

It's all about the test scores for kids, teachers and schools these days. The Board of Regents and the NYS Education Department have g...

The Mayor of Money has hailed graduation rate increases as another piece of proof that is education reforms have worked. But just as the ...

The Stephanie Simon article at Politico on why public schools may not be failing is up now and it is a good one. She busts some cherished ...

Lisa Fleischer at the Wall Street Journal: The next New York City mayor will take control of the nation’s largest school system. But don...

Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Walcott took what the New York Daily News termed a "victory lap" yesterday over the Common Core tes...