President Bush nominates non-researcher buddy of Jeb to second term on the National Board of Education Sciences
I didn’t catch this until the daily Fritzwire, but last week’s nomination of four members to the National Board of Education Sciences included a second term for Phil Handy, former head of the Florida Board of Education, a businessman, and someone who never impressed me when he was the Board of Ed chair here. My […]
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 […]