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Balance Is Key to Success of the New Evaluation System

After almost a year of legal wrangling, the New York State Education Department and state teachers’ union finally came to an agreement over how to evaluate the state’s public school teachers. Under the...

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Mayor and Union Talk on Radio About Evaluations (Separately)

A day after education officials and teachers' unions reached a compromise on a teacher evaluation agreement, the two sides took to the airwaves for their respective postmortems. Thursday's agreement...

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Ravitch Says New Evaluation System Is 'Madness'

The public schools may be closed all week for February Break, but critics and other writers are busy examining the new teacher evaluation agreement that was reached last week.The education historian...

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Teachers: An Invitation to Respond to Your Data Report

2:03 p.m. | Updated Under a court order based on the Freedom of Information Law, the New York City Department of Education plans to release its Teacher Data Reports -- individual ratings of thousands...

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College Racial Gap Continues to Grow

On Friday, a mix of good and bad news came in a U.S. Census report on the nation's college degree rates.Richard Perez-Pena reports in The New York Times that the nation reached a milestone as of last...

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City Teacher Data Reports Are Released

7:17 p.m. | Updated After a long legal battle and amid much anguish by teachers and other educators, the New York City Education Department released individual performance rankings of 18,000 public...

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An Audio Report on the Who, What and Why of Teacher Ratings

WNYCWNYC's education reporter, Beth Fertig, and The Times' data specialist, Rob Gebeloff, dive into the data reports for 18,000 teachers and give listeners an eight-minute overview during a segment of...

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Release of Teacher Data Is Widely Denounced

Outside the doors of the Tweed Courthouse, the headquarters of the city's Education Department, there were few champions on Friday of the release of individual performance rankings of 18,000 public...

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Mulgrew Says Mayor's Education Legacy Is 'in Shambles'

5:13 p.m. | Updated After a weekend of outrage and anger among his members, the president of the teachers' union, Michael Mulgrew, greeted teachers returning to school in Brooklyn on Monday and sounded...

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No Way Out of the Evaluation Trap

Believe it or not, I wake up every morning eager to go to work. I never know what’s going to happen in my classes, but I invariably look forward to them. My students never fail to surprise me. I feel...

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For Teachers and Principals, Anger, Sadness and a Need to Explain

WNYCPrincipals react to teacher ratingsSome teachers said they worry that the public release of individual teacher data is going to lead to fights over high-performing students, and to the neglect of...

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What Should Be Learned From the Teacher Rankings?

In the news on Tuesday, the fallout from the release of teacher data ratings continued, with reporting and commentary in an array of blogs, newspapers and magazines.In a New Yorker online post, a...

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Performance Ratings for Charter School Teachers Are Made Public

Performance ratings for 217 New York City charter school teachers were made public on Tuesday but city officials cautioned that because of missing information, the reports cannot be used to objectively...

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City Pushes Ahead on Plan to Close, Then Reopen 33 Schools

The New York City Education Department has set in motion its plan to restore federal grants to 33 struggling schools. On Tuesday, it released proposals to close eight of those schools, replace half of...

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Examining Teacher Rankings

Schools and teachers are still reeling from the release and publication of their performance ratings -- particularly at two Brooklyn schools, where teachers received low ratings despite the schools'...

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Online Map Helps Track School Districts' Teacher Evaluation Plans

For anyone wanting to keep tabs on the progress of new teacher evaluation systems in the state, there is now an online tool to help. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's office has created an interactive map on...

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The City and the Union Talk Teacher Evaluations, Again

After a few weeks of attacking one another in the press, city education officials and the teachers' union have started negotiations over a new teacher evaluation system, again, although they did not...

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What We Told the State Education Commissioner

Librado Romero/The New York TimesKatherine Sprowal and her son, Matthew, last summer.A few Saturdays ago, while taking a break from the black and Latino caucus meetings in Albany, I was eating lunch...

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Fallout Continues Over Teacher Rankings

The release of the data reports for 18,000 New York City public school teachers continues to reverberate, not just in the city but around the state and across the country. A number of new, thoughtful...

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Test Driving a Pilot Teacher Evaluation System

WNYCListen to how one school uses the latest method to evaluate its teachers.As an experienced principal, Katherine Moloney knows that good teachers can make a lesson out of almost anything. So she was...

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