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Gates in Tampa … no, my daughter’s school!
Two chances in one week to provide personal perspective on Gates’ philanthropy. Along with a few thousand other AFT delegates, I saw Gates’s speech last Saturday. Today’s comment comes via the Business Week article on the Gates Foundation’s education program. The article is one of the better journalistic portraits of the foundation, including historical perspective […]
Fat tails and audit trails in Florida test scores
I’m starting the day behind on a bunch of things, thanks to a week at the AFT convention in Seattle and the beauteous handling of bad weather by Delta. I arrived in Tampa about 23 hours after leaving Seattle, and let’s leave it at that. So I’m a bit behind on the background behind the […]
Gates speech at AFT
Originally written Saturday, July 10: I’ve figured out how to hang this electronic device onto the back of the chair in front of me while my old PDA foldable keyboard is synced and sitting on my lap, so I can write this blog entry in the middle of the AFT session. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka […]
What uses of test scores will pass legal muster in teacher evaluations?
Legal considerations on the use of test score derived stats in teacher evaluation: Scott Bauries started an interesting discussion June 2 of value-added measures and teacher evaluations from a legal perspective. It’s very important to read the comment thread, as he’s challenged on his conclusions by Bruce Baker and Preston Green, especially with regard to […]
Get your performance-pay evaluation report bingo cards here
So another few evaluation reports have been released with little evidence of student achievement flowing from performance-pay systems. This is going to sound like a broken record from me, but I don’t make too much out of one or two studies in policy research. These studies on systems in Chicago and New York confirm something […]