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Race to the Top comment sausage
A friend of mine from Chicago introduced me to the term link sausage as a blog entry that is not much more than a set of links. Here are links to various comments on Race to the Top (a tiny slice of the well-over-thousand comments submitted): National Education Association (Word) American Federation of Teachers (PDF) […]
I’m commenting on Race to the Top, and I want a pony, too!
Impressions of a quick skim of 20 or so comments on the draft Race to the Top regs: I couldn’t find the national AFT comments anywhere. Thus far, the two sets of technical comments by the Learning Disabilities Association of America and the group of academics with Kane, Staiger, and several others (uploaded by Thomas […]
NEA’s comments: righteousness over responsibility to members?
I’m an NEA member, through my membership in the United Faculty of Florida. I’m a skeptic and critic of high-stakes accountability. Wrote a book and a few articles on the topic. And I am astounded at the NEA’s comments on the Race to the Top draft regulations. (Hat tip.) It is one thing to submit […]
What “multiple measures” looks like in reality
Friday’s Sun-Sentinel article on the new evaluation scale for Florida high schools shows what happens when a state moves away from general-assessment test scores as the end-all and be-all of accountability. In this case, Florida’s new scale for high schools rewards schools for graduating more students, especially those who have problems with the state assessments, […]
How can we use bad measures in decisionmaking?
I had about 20 minutes of between-events time this morning and used it to catch up on two interesting papers on value-added assessment and teacher evaluation–the Jesse Rothstein piece using North Carolina data and the Koedel-Betts replication-and-more with San Diego data. Speaking very roughly, Rothstein used a clever falsification test: if the assignment of students […]