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Defending Effective Accountability and Assessment Practices
Saturday, March 29, 200810:45-12:15Hilton Washington Defending Effective Accountability and Assessment Practices is the title of the session I’m a participant in at the NEA/AFT Higher Education Joint Conference. AFT web page on conference NEA web page on conference From what I understand, the tentatively-slated participants include staff members of two institutional associations as well as […]
Is the blind spot on higher-ed accountability that big?
In all the kerfluffle over the senior theses of Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama, I hope I am not the only person asking the other question that I think is obvious and to the point: What do the theses tell us about the state of undergraduate education for Princeton and Wellesley students at the time? […]
NCLB and where we sit
In my undergraduate social foundations class, I spend some time explaining the politics of accountability. For the last few years, a critical mass of students (either a majority or a vocal minority) have consistently opposed accountability, taking on the mantle of professionalism, and it’s my job to rattle their cages and make them see things […]
Wrong incentive structure for community colleges/technical training
George R. Boggs and Marlene B. Seltzer describe Washington State’s incentive structure designed to encourage community colleges to push completion: Washington’s community and technical colleges will receive extra money for students who earn their first 15 and first 30 college credits, earn their first 5 credits of college-level math, pass a pre-college writing or math […]
Teacher performance-pay distributions in Tampa
Yesterday and today, the St Petersburg Times has been covering the distribution of performance pay among different schools in Hillsborough County (one of the few in Florida where the union and school board agreed to the state’s merit-pay provisions). See the main story from yesterday and also a tale of two teachers, a basic Q&A […]