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Florida achievement gaps, the data
The following is more of a useful reference for me than anything else, but since I've been asked a few times about the "everyone else behave like Florida" argument floating out there, here is (in Excel format) Florida NAEP scale score data through 2010, with selected demographic groups. Some caveats: you'll see different starting dates because […]
“Efficiency” vs. “accountability” in education discourse (one tiny and friable slice)
Like many others, I’ve been enjoying playing for at least a few minutes with the new Google Ngram viewer. So what can one see when you put in the phrases school accountability and school efficiency in the Google Ngram search box? The blue line is the proportionate set of sources in the Google database (by […]
Student surveys, the good and bad
Having finished the grading process for my undergraduate students, I have some doctoral students to attend to and a few short writing assignments as well this week. So while I am itching to read the Gates Foundation-funded, Tom Kane-directed report on value-added measures and surveys of student-observed teacher behavior, I haven't yet had an opportunity. […]
Re-run of Senate Bill 6 in Florida?
The St. Petersburg Times' blog is reporting that the foundation created by Jeb Bush is shopping a draft of a re-run of Senate Bill 6 with regard to teacher provisions.This draft carries over the parts of 2010’s Senate Bill 6 that pertain to teacher evaluation, pay, and employment status. Retained in significant or complete measure: the […]
Education behind bars to remove bars
A break from election discussion: David McKay Wilson has an interesting discussion of correctional education in an article in Nov/Dec 2010 Harvard Education Letter. That means education of teenagers who are in detention facilities. Wilson points to the (non-test-oriented) provisions of NCLB that apply to education behind bars: certification requirements for teachers, tracking of students […]