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Alfie Kohn and Diane Ravitch agree!
This week, the zeitgeist in education news is paying students for test scores, as in the Baltimore Sun article yesterday or the USA Today story, but so-called incentive programs have been in the news before and criticized before: See criticisms of Pizza Hut’s “Book It” program or Barry Schwartz’s column last July, which scored New […]
Party trumps policy
Last night, Leo Casey hypothesized on Edwize that Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama was related to NCLB. Like Scott Elliott (a reporter with the Dayton Daily News), I’m skeptical. While George Miller and Ted Kennedy have both endorsed Obama and are major figures in NCLB politics, they are also stalwarts in the Democratic caucuses in each […]
Value-added, with botulism
Before Kevin Carey proclaims that value-added [method] comes of age, he might want to read the real true facts behind the New York City teacher value-added project, wherein we learn that the city’s great statistical experts thought three children were enough of a sample on which to base a teacher evaluation, or maybe the ethical […]
Where does effective reform come from?
Thursday, Andy Rotherham challenged historians of education: [H]ere’s a question for the historians that might help explain why education does careen from one thing to the next. What are the most compelling examples of where the education system has reformed itself in ways that have demonstrably benefited students? Haven’t most of the reforms, for good […]
Ranking creates perverse incentives; ranking of lunchtime and liberal-arts colleges, doubly so
Inside Higher Ed has a great article today, Potemkin Rankings, on how Washington and Jefferson College did everything you’d normally think is right to improve how they look to outsiders and still sank in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. The short story: W&J recruited like crazy to increase the applicant pool and managed […]