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Three days ago on this blog, I launched a Change.org petition regarding 540 Meals: Choices Make the Difference, a new McDonald's «nutrition education» film about an Iowa science teacher who ate nothing but McDonald's for six months.

A task force by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is reversing a number of policies in the Common Core standards, including parts of a measure on teacher evaluations pushed by Cuomo less than a year ago.

Several members of the state Board of Regents sharply criticized a new teacher evaluation system forced on them by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and the Legislature a month ago.

Andrew Cuomo all but declared war on the teachers union when he ran for governor of New York eight years ago.

The delays in the process, the Daily News reported a few weeks ago, has the greatest effect on the same high - quality new recruits whose jobs Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he wanted to save during this year's fight over how to determine teacher layoffs.

«Three years ago, we had four or five teachers who did not know how to turn on a computer, but today a new computer sits on every teacher's desk,» says principal Jed Landsman - Yakin.

A composite measure on teacher effectiveness drawing on all three of those measures, and tested through a random - assignment experiment, closely predicted how much a high - performing group of teachers would successfully boost their students» standardized - test scores, concludes the series of new papers, part of the massive Measures of Effective Teaching study launched more than three years ago.

So it is with «balanced literacy,» which has reared its head once again in New York City, as schools chancellor Carmen Farina places Teachers College professor Lucy M. Calkins back on the English language arts curricular and pedagogical throne that she briefly occupied a decade ago until Joel Klein learned what a catastrophe that was.

A few weeks ago while discussing a topic for the next new teacher chat on Twitter, a pre-service teacher sent me a private tweet.

Through various projects focusing on professional development in the STEM subjects and digital skills, teachers are provided with support in delivering new elements of a future - facing curriculum, where their students will be working with new technologies and developments that were not even thought of just a decade or so ago.

• Reformers continue to develop new «dispositions» in teacher certification on grounds of diversity and multiculturalism, but reformers devised dispositions long ago on grounds of emotional and physical vitality.

But the CTU president's comments indicate a new contract can be achieved this time around without the rancor of three years ago, when teachers went on strike for seven days.

The teachers were crafting their instructional practice on information given to them a number of years ago, but the newer information in the article had them questioning their lived experiences and effectiveness.

Let me give you a little background about myself: I was a classroom teacher many years ago in New York and Seattle, but I got excited about and hooked on the research part of our profession very early in life.

A composite measure on teacher effectiveness drawing on all three of those measures, and tested through a random - assignment experiment, predicted fairly accurately how much high - performing teachers would successfully boost their students» standardized - test scores, concludes the series of new papers, part of the massive Measures of Effective Teaching study launched three years ago.

Unlike my requirement in Maine almost twenty years ago, to this day, New Jersey does not require its pre-service general education teachers to take even one credit of coursework specifically aimed at learning to teach students with special needs in general education classrooms, which I believe at least partly explains New Jersey's problematic record on implementing the least restrictive environment provisions of IDEA.

But data in the same release on key stage 1 teacher assessments, the first since a new «more challenging curriculum» was brought in two years ago, shows fewer pupils reach the expected standard in writing than in other subjects.

A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that not only is California behind most other states and the nation on enacting policies that support effective teaching, but it has also slipped from its already low position of a few years ago.

Ten days ago, Superintendent Sharon Contreras briefed the city's Board of Education on the results of the first year of implementation of the «Annual Professional Performance Review» (APPR) plan, a fancy phrase for the new statewide teacher and principal evaluation system in New Yonew statewide teacher and principal evaluation system in New YoNew York.