TESOL ELB: Education Week - New Jersey recently became the sixth state with a Race to the Top grant (albeit a smaller, bridesmaid-sized grant) to alter or put the brakes on new teacher evaluations, a major policy shift required of the competitions winners. Recently, the state department of education watered-down the use of scores from new Common Core State Standards-aligned exams in its teacher evaluations. With Gov. Chris Christies backing, the state lessened the weight given to the new Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career, or PARCC, for the next two years. For more interesting articles visit the TESOL English Language Bulletin bit.ly/1esG4jR
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 22:00:01 +0000
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