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There it ain’t — a rap on The Quick and the Ed’s knuckles
In The Quick and the Ed today, Kevin Carey boldly overclaims: The Times is reporting that, at the behest of the teachers unions, last-minute language was snuck into the New York State budget providing that “teacher[s] shall not be granted or denied tenure based on student performance data.” There’s really not much one can add […]
A dozen questions for an official graduation rate
When the OMB clears the draft regs on counting dropouts, we can expect another wave of stories on graduation rates and what they all mean. Sharp reporters and other observers will ask the following questions of the draft regs: Does the definition of graduation include or exclude non-standard completion categories such as GEDs and “certificates […]
Gradu[r]ated
So U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Announces Department Will Move to a Uniform Graduation Rate, Require Disaggregation of Data (the true title of the press release today announcing imminent-but-not-published draft regs defining a graduation rate and only a few words away from the type of book title that would cure almost any insomnia). And […]
"Differentiated accountability"
Alexander Russo links to news coverage of the Margaret Spellings announcement yesterday that maybe not all AYP failures are the same. Here’s some blog coverage: Ed Week reporter David Hoff notes the irony that Spellings made the announcement in a state that was ineligible for the pilot. St Pete Times reporter Ron Matus anticipates that […]
Florida ed policy and politics
The legislative session is in full swing (or a more colorful noun), and a bunch of things are in the air either in Tallahassee or elsewhere: 1. Both houses of the state legislature are considering bills to change the role of state testing (FCAT), either by adding other information to the labeling of high schools […]