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Why the Teacher Incentive Fund and Race to the Top are long-term dead ends for merit-pay advocates
The apparent push in the proposed 2011 Obama budget for an enlarged Teacher Incentive Fund on the heels of Race to the Top makes me think that merit-pay/performance-pay advocates may be spreading their political capital very thin on teacher evaluation. Most advocates of paying teachers in part based on test scores are also advocates of […]
Spot temperature:Climate::Test score:____________
I fully expect that within a week (if not yet already) some climate-change skeptic will use the cold wave currently freezing much of the country as an argument that climate changing really isn’t happening. And every time there’s a vicious cold snap in winter or a cooler-than-average summer we get the argument. And some reporter […]
Turnaround or abandonment in NYC?
The extent of school closings in New York City is becoming evident, and after JD2718‘s posts on the subject over the past half-week, UFT’s Leo Casey provides an overview and alleges an ulterior motive (to create available space for other purposes, not to improve education). I’m far from NYC and can’t speak from close knowledge of […]
Are central Florida schools flouting Florida law limiting test-prep?
I have heard from teachers and students in three area districts (Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Hernando counties) that secondary teachers in some subjects are being ordered to spend the first 10 minutes of class suspending the curriculum and teaching material from another class. In the case of two counties (Pinellas and Hernando), I have heard stories […]
Race to the Top: review, revise, redux
I am in California this weekend for the Social Science History Association annual meeting, where we get to talk about Maris Vinovskis’s book on the last quarter century of school reform, and since one of my copanelists Saturday morning is Jennifer Jennings, I finally get to meet the sociologist-formerly-known-as-Eduwonkette in person, face to face. Because […]