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At least this test-preparation didn’t steal instructional time…
According to the St. Pete Times blog The Gradebook, a small-town Florida elementary principal and several of her teachers prayed for student success the Friday evening before the state writing test early this month. Then they anointed student desks with prayer oil. Apart from the church-state issues involved—praying for your students on your own time is […]
Politician’s logic on school reform
According to the St. Pete Times Gradebook, the Florida House education committee chair is interested in mandating single-sex classrooms and uniforms for low-rated schools: “Something has to be done to improve D and F schools. What we’re doing now is not enough.” As fans of Yes, Prime Minister‘s Antony Jay would recognize, this is politician’s […]
Parsing growth and grossing the Parthenon
Kevin Carey criticizes Leo Casey‘s take on growth measures to evaluate teacher effectiveness. Casey cited a 2003 RAND Corp. study which cast doubt on the use of student-achievement growth measures to evaluate teachers (something pushed by the Aspen Commission).
The "tough love" talk begins on Aspen Commission
The spin has begun, with Diane Schemo’s NYT article Tougher Standards Urged for Federal Education Law, Leo Casey’s pointing out that growth models can’t accurately measure teacher contributions to student achievement, Michele McLaughlin’s identifying problems with the commission’s way of framing teacher effectiveness, Andy Rotherham’s saying it has plenty of small actionable ideas, and Kevin […]
Commission Withholds Final Report for NCLB Reauthorization – Aspen Institute
I know that’s not the title of the webpage, which properly is Commission Releases Final Report… Nonetheless, when the livecast link is dead, … (I’ve left messages with two staff members and hope that they can correct the technical problem for the video archive.) The report is available online (though not on the Aspen Institute site).