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Chetty Study: "simpleminded, technocratic, dehumanizing and disturbing"
The heart of Bruce Baker’s first review of the corporate boot-licking conclusions by Chetty & Co.: . . . . The authors find that teacher value added scores in their historical data set vary. No...
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Here’s the big study that’s making all the #edpolicy and #edreform wonks and...
Wow, that’s a long title. Here’s a link to the big study, basically concluding that teachers with high student test scores can prevent teen pregnancy. Oh, and offer up on average each student an extra...
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#Education #reform pronunciation guide to help you with very difficult...
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Cuomo and Mulgrew Get New York in LIne with Other Lemmings
Last night the king of hackneyed superlatives, Arne Duncan, was on Jon Stewart’s show demonstrating once again that there is an Orwellian platitude for every serious question, a punishing lie inside...
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Brandenburg on the devastating irrelevance of #VAM, but will “they” listen?
To answer my own question, no… no they won’t. There’s too much money and ego invested to turn back now, which to me is insane. But check out Brandenburg’s post here and his analysis of the value added...
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A visual for #valueadded or #VAM to help you understand #teacher #evaluation
You get it now, right? Tagged: new york, nydoe, statistics, teacher evaluation, value-added, vam
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Episode 48 of @thechalkface is coming up tomorrow at 1PM
It’s back after a little break. We’re talking value added modeling, an education summit in Selma, AL, and the confessions of a so-called “bad teacher.” Listen live or archive here. Tagged: at the chalk...
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Have YOU listened to Episode 48 of @thechalkface yet? Well, ya’ should...
Here it is, in all of its archived glory. Tagged: @tcf, at the chalkface, bad teachers, podcast, value-added
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A word on the true value added of #teachers via @gothamschools
A great piece from Gotham Schools on measuring the true value of teachers. Here’s a good statement on the use of data: Still for all the motivating anger I felt, I also felt demoralized and quite...
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Over my dead body: evaluating #teacher #preparation using #VAM
The Answer Sheet reports on the potential use of test scores and value added models to evaluate college teacher preparation programs. Two things. One, how do you account for folks who attend multiple...
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Urgent Note to Race to the Top Winners
I know Secretary Duncan forgot to send this to you almost 3 years ago. Sorry.However, in building a teacher evaluation system based on value-added test scores, YOU HAVE SCREWED UP! Read Full...
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In Search of An Accountable Education Editor at the New York Times
Brent Staples has long been the education editorialist at the New York Times, and his function as a rubber stamp for corporate education reform has assured his continuing tenure there. His opining...
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Houston, You’ve Got a Problem: It’s Called EVAAS
Never really understood what value-added test scores mean, and how they affect teachers and kids? Ever wondered why the National Academy of Sciences sent a a 14-page letter to Arne Duncan warning him...
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Evaluations Based on Test Scores Goes to Court in Florida
Take heart, teachers. Be brave. Emulate your colleagues in Florida. Go to Court! By the way, Randi and Dennis, you could be using some of those high-priced AFT/NEA lawyers who protect your 400...
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NY’s Rube Goldberg Plan for Teacher Evaluation
When you have news that is too toxic even to go into the Friday afternoon news dump, you save it for Saturday when everyone is at the beach or at the park. That’s just what NY’s Broadie Ed Commish,...
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TEA Challenges Huffman/Haslam Plan to Tie Licensure to Value-Addled Test Scores
You have to take the 18 minutes to view this news conference announcement in order to appreciate the profound unfairness of using VAM for ANY high stakes decision. For more context, detailed...
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Localized VAM and Nationalized Scam
Part of the story we tell in TMoE focuses on how value-added modeling (VAM) grew up out of the backwoods of Tennessee to become an essential component of the national Common Core testing delivery...
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Bullying by Numbers: Value-Added Measures
If you’ve been paying attention, you know that the evaluation focus for public education has moved quickly away from students and rapidly towards teachers and schools. The propaganda is everywhere,...
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#Education #reform pronunciation guide to help you with very difficult...
Filed under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk Face Tagged: edreform, education reform, pronunciation guide, terms, value-added
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Value-Added Scores Finally Explained by NM Education Department
This summer, an ongoing action by New Mexico teachers is to send in Inspection of Public Records requests (IPRAs, for short), asking the Public Education Department (PED) to send evidence that backs up...
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