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Thoughts on “Race to Nowhere”
I finally saw the advocacy documentary Race to Nowhere Sunday afternoon at the end of my 25th class reunion at Haverford College. There was a showing of the film after a panel Saturday about adolescent anxiety and inspired by several other alumni who have clinical practices and are worried about the same topics the film’s producer Vicki […]
FCAT writing SNAFU–there’s another shoe somewhere
I don’t have much to say about the FCAT writing SNAFU that’s followed the release of dramatically lower scores in this year’s exercises. Testing in general is a technical subject where sudden changes should prompt caution about drawing conclusions other than “Hmmn, that warrants some close examination.” Moreso with the type of “holistic” (i.e., one-dimensional) […]
America’s Promise 2012 report relies on problematic graduation measure… for the last time?
This year’s America’s Promise report on high school graduation rates has just been released, and according to the description on p. 23, the non-profit is using the Adjusted Freshman Graduation Rate, which has a moderate relationship at best to the new federal adjusted-cohort rate, at least using Florida data. A little better is the Johns […]
Minor addendum on the TDR coverage post
In rereading the post I just uploaded, I realized some readers may be surprised at the fact no major news organization earned a B or C. That is an artifact of the herd response by media, where most published the teacher names and (bad) data. In terms of potential favoritism, I have no personal connection […]
Grades for coverage of NYC Teacher Data Report release
Before the New York City Department of Education released the name-and-number spreadsheet on the now-defunct Teacher Data Reports, I wrote and released grading criteria for news coverage. And now, with more than a week of coverage from a number of outlets, the grades (limited to major outlets where I read a critical mass of coverage). ((Thanks […]