Students Know What Makes for Effective Teaching
Students have savvy things to say about how effective their teachers are in helping them learn. “As a nation, we’ve wasted what students know about their own classroom experiences instead of using that...
View ArticleGo Read It: Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Paper on Student-Surveyed...
The Los Angeles Times has posted the entire study for the public to read here. You should know it’s been annotated by Jason Felch, one of the LA Times’ reporters who has been filing numerous education...
View ArticleEvaluating Teachers: Data-Driven vs. Peer-Driven, or, Wal-Mart vs. Etsy
A NYT article exposes flaws in the data-driven “value-added” approach to assessing a given teacher’s classroom skills: when using student standardized test scores as the key measure of a teacher’s...
View ArticleGo Read It: Columbia Journalism Review–"Tested: Covering Schools in the Age...
This is an excellent piece and a must-read. It highlights advocacy journalism in the service of the “value-added” agenda at the Los Angeles Times (and an ongoing attempt at the NY Times) to release...
View ArticleLAUSD Releases Its Own "Value-Added" Rankings of Schools
Superintendent John Deasy takes over the second-largest school system in America, LAUSD, just as the district releases its own calculations of student performance based on standardized test scores....
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#OccupyBigEd
When Republican Congressmen vote against higher nutrition standards for children’s school lunches, carrying out the wishes of “Big Ag” by making the tomato sauce on school lunch pizza the equivalent of...
View ArticleConnecticut Governor Malloy Calls Rhee 'Divisive', Declines A Joint Appearance
The Connecticut Parents Union is a statewide community-based group led by Gwen Samuel, a parent with a child in the New Haven city schools. The group had arranged a March 14, 2012 meeting with the...
View ArticleThe Failed Microsoft Corporate Origins of “Value-Added” Teacher Rankings
Readers of the Vanity Fair piece highlighting Microsoft’s decade of failure to innovate and resulting loss of market share can’t help but notice the close parallels between that company’s decline and...
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