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Quick note on Tony Bennett: anchor cases and leadership
I’m trying to get some other things done today, but the news on Tony Bennett is dominating education reporting in Florida this week, and my two cents’ worth of response is easy to explain. Essentially, the emails AP dug up through a public records request showed that when he was the state superintendent in Indiana, […]
Florida’s education clunkocracy
Yesterday, the Florida Board of Education voted to change the rules by which the state Department of Education labels local public and charter schools with letter grades each summer. The 4-3 vote was far from its usual unanimous endorsement of the education commissioner’s recommendation.
International workshop for free (or, rather, for time)
This weekend, Christian Ydesen (Aalborg University) and I hosted a small workshop on the comparative history of school accountability. We had six papers written by eight scholars from three time zones in two hemispheres. I’m excited by the subject of the papers — all told, the papers discussed school accountability in some detail in six […]
“Waiver Waver… Don’t tell me [it’s a moratorium]!”
To be very clear, this is not a pause or a moratorium — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, June 19, 2013 Alyson Klein covered the news yesterday that the U.S. Department of Education will give the majority of states the option to request a one-year delay in using value-added measures as part of teacher […]
The “can we do better?” standard
Last Thursday’s commentary by Tom Kane in the Brookings Institute education blog is an interesting new argument around teacher evaluation. He suggests that the modal first-year/novice teacher performance is the proper criterion for giving teachers permanent employment status (he uses the word tenure inappropriately here). As a hypothetical, Kane’s column moves us away from an algorithmic […]