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Can public schools work? Texas Tribune’s interview with Michael Marder, Part II
From my earlier post on the Texas Tribune interview with Michael Marder, in which he questioned the assumptions that monkeying with teacher discipline, accountability, pay, training, vacations, or...
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Now I Understand Why Bill Gates Didn't Want The Value-Added Data Made Public
Reblogged from GFBrandenburg's Blog: It all makes sense now. At first I was a bit surprised that Bill Gates and Michelle Rhee were opposed to publicizing the value-added data from New York City and...
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Teacher ratings can’t tell good teachers from bad ones – back to the drawing...
Corporate and business people who have lived through serious quality improvement programs, especially those based on hard statistical analysis of procedures and products in a manufacturing plant, know...
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Test “priming”: Malcolm Gladwell on how to push test results, and why tests...
Who is the interviewer, Allan Gregg? From the YouTube site: Malcolm Gladwell in an interview about Blink explains priming, and re-states some of the examples of priming from Blink with CC (closed...
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823 Texas school boards say they are “anti-testing”
Political consultant and columnist Jason Stanford out of Austin Tweeted an interesting note today: 823 school boards in Texas now have passed resolutions opposing “over-reliance on high-stakes...
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Powerful teacher unions make good schools
From a column by Washington Post writer Matt Miller, “Romney vs. teachers unions: The inconvenient truth”: That reality is this: The top performing school systems in the world have strong teachers...
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. . . and one test to rule them all . . .
The fundamental problem with standardized testing is that kids don’t come “standard.” A teacher friend sent me this cartoon, summarizing the problem nicely: If we use tests to cheat teachers out of a...
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Can videos make you teacher of the year? Paul Andersen’s Montana science videos
There’s a great story here — maybe more than one. For “Origin of Species Day,” November 24, the anniversary of the 1859 publication of Charles Darwin’s most famous book, Paul Andersen sent out this...
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Hold teachers accountable? I don’t think that word means what you think it means
Diane Ravitch gets all the good discussion — of course, she’s much the expert and she’s done several thousand posts in the last year. View of a two-story wood-frame school house with students and...
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Testing resistance in Colorado takes to the road
From Susan Ohanian’s NCLB Cartoons: “Every year, the Coalitition for Better Education raises grassroots funds to put up these billboards. You can contribute. You can go forth and do likewise in your...
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