Legislative rolling and the New York budget language on tenure
One more thought on the New York state budget’s language placing a moratorium on using test scores to deny teachers tenure: I’m wondering how much of the ire directed at the legislature and the calumny aimed at NYSUT (the state teachers union affiliate) is about the process of how this happened—i.e., without the “right” people […]
Sketching a course 3
Habits etc. Reading at multiple levels: for information, for a story, for perspective Evaluation at multiple levels: consistency/logic, newness, accuracy, relevance of questions Writing through multiple drafts Revision with an audience in mind Experiences Reading for wonder Writing as joyful Writing as intense Writing to sort through ideas and then present them
Organizational psychosis?
Yesterday’s New York Times article on ‘credit recovery’ puts the Bloomberg-Klein years in New York in perspective, as one Manhattan principal explains: I think that credit recovery and the related topic independent study is in lots of ways the dirty little secret of high schools. There’s very little oversight and there are very few standards. […]
Sketching a course 2
Stuff to expose students to The difference between the rhetoric of federalism/local control and the (maybe chaotic) reality of education reform (multiple sources) Politicization and education as part of citizenship (multiple sources) Curriculum as projection of values (Kliebard) Finances and reform rhetoric (multiple sources: need an argument more than pat descriptions)
There it ain’t — a rap on The Quick and the Ed’s knuckles
In The Quick and the Ed today, Kevin Carey boldly overclaims: The Times is reporting that, at the behest of the teachers unions, last-minute language was snuck into the New York State budget providing that “teacher[s] shall not be granted or denied tenure based on student performance data.” There’s really not much one can add […]