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Monday, March 10, 2014
Public Education Meets Carrot and Stick: Kids Lose
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The only advantage I can imagine to being stuck on the tarmack for 2 hours at Austin-Bergstrom Airport last week while the plane was being d...
Sunday, February 16, 2014
All Kinds of Kinds: Evaluating a Teacher
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Evaluating a teacher demands nuance, not numbers . The Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter, Don Henry, has a song w...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
The Common Core: Is “College and Career Ready” the Right Target?
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Why "college and career ready?" Could it be because this fits the corporate reform agenda? The designers of the Common Core Stat...
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Responding to TEACHNJ Enthusiasts
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Saturday's Trenton Times had this editorial enthusing about TEACHNJ the new teacher evaluation law. http://www.nj.com/times-opinion/ind...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
The VAM Moose: Coming to a School Near You
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Concerned with the negative publicity surrounding the use of Value Added Models (VAMs)* for teacher evaluation, the Grates Foundation,...
Monday, September 9, 2013
Valuing the Professional Educator: Toward an Evaluation Plan that Works, Part 1
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By the time a teacher receives the first evaluation of his/her performance, the school district has already invested a great deal of time...
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