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“Portfolio district” concept as YASBA (yet another silver bullet approach)?
In the last week I had a brief exchange on Twitter with CPRE’s Robin Lake and Fordham’s Mike Petrilli about so-called portfolio districts. A short description of the components of a portfolio district is accessible on the CPRE website, and aside from the jargon that irritated me in the Twitter exchange, the gist is the proposal […]
Does ACA ruling threaten NCLB?
As people sift through the debris of the Supreme Court decision on federal health care law, the question that is coming up in a few places (such as Mark Walsh’s article this morning in Ed Week, in Rick Hess’s blog, and on Twitter) is whether the part of the ruling on Medicaid expansion has implications for other […]
The voucher double standard on accountability, with a twist
Over at the redefinED blog, Robyn Rennick has an entry from yesterday arguing that accountability testing doesn’t make sense for McKay Scholarship students. In essence, she argues that testing students with disabilities in general makes little sense. Here’s the problem with her argument as far as it applies to accountability and voucher programs: There are already […]
Yes, school boards share the blame for test prep frenzy
I spoke with Orlando Sentinel Beth Kassab yesterday afternoon, before she finished the column that appeared today. While I suspect we disagree in terms of the state’s responsibility, she is correct that school boards share the blame with the state for the zealous, inappropriate amount of test prep in schools. Many of the same school boards […]
For public schools, “artistes” need not apply
A few weeks ago, my summer class and I discussed teacher evaluations–the first paper for the class uses value-added measures in teacher evaluations as the case under discussion. ((I am teaching the schools-and-society course in a six-week session: it’s intense, and because of that the class is smaller than the ten-week sections we are offering […]