Category: Teacher Quality

• A New Way to Do Accountability

  10–15 minutes

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  February 6, 2013

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  Accountability, Community-Based Accountability, High-Stakes Testing, Teacher Quality

  How can we banish NCLB’s top-down and narrow paradigm? Here is how you do it… Accountability should foster collective community goals. In education, there are many measures of student success from school entry through graduation and beyond. Here are Community-Based Accountability Executive Summary and Key Features. Please forward and circulate widely. These are living documents and…

  

• Politicians v. Experts: The Latest on “Value-added” Modeling

  2–3 minutes

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  January 31, 2013

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  Teacher Quality

  I find it disconcerting that Cuomo (and the feds) are punishing the New York City Schools by withholding $400 million because they refuse to adopt “value-added” modeling that some consider as “frauds” and “junk science.” Growth models were also an issue in the recent Chicago teacher strike. Who should we listen to on value-added modeling?…