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One teacher’s response to Ron Matus’s article
There’s been lots of coverage of the Ron Matus story March 29 on firing teachers in Florida, but there’s been no follow-up online about the letters to the editor that were printed April 4 (last Saturday), and at this point, I can’t even find the letters on the Times website. But I think one needs […]
Sharpton paid off? Please tell me this is an April Fool’s joke
The New York Daily News is reporting this morning that former NYC Schools Chancellor Harold Levy is involved in a $500,000 payoff set of donations to the Rev. Al Sharpton’s organization, with payments beginning shortly after Sharpton and Joel Klein launched the Education Equality Project in June 2008. With friends like Levy,… In other news, […]
Seattle will be drier
I spent some time this weekend finishing the first complete draft of a talk I’m giving in Seattle on Thursday. I’m going to be heading there while a few thousand historians are leaving Seattle after the end of the Organization of American Historians meeting. I’m either expecting to find a time machine or I am […]
Longitudinal data systems, good; unique teacher linkage, bad
Diane Ravitch’s blog entry this morning seriously disparages the value of longitudinal data systems, including the linking of teachers to students, and John Thompson’s entry discusses the abuse of data by administrators. Essentially, both Ravitch and Thompson fear the brain-dead or conscious abuse of data to judge teachers out of context. That’s also the reason […]
Joel Klein as DM
John Thompson’s blog entry today, God Does Not Play Dice, is in response to Charles Barone’s Ed Sector report on value-added or growth models used for high-stakes accountability. (It’s on my to-read list along with the IES/Mathematica study on teacher ed programs and various other things.) Thompson describes a number of caveats and then says, […]