A short review of Teacher Evaluation 2.0
My quick impression of the New Teacher Project's Teacher Evaluation 2.0: 90% common sense, 50% reform testosterone. It's a short booklet, and once you read it, you'll probably understand what I mean.
Dan Weisberg presentation at Hillsborough Community College, October 6
Yesterday, The New Teacher Project Vice President Dan Weisberg spoke at one of the Florida Department of Education What's Working forums, and because it was in Tampa I was able to attend. He spoke the same day that TNTP released its 12-page booklet suggesting six guidelines for teacher evaluation. And, not that this should have been […]
A little bit of sanity in Florida
In Florida today, an appeals court upheld a lower-court decision ruling that Florida's statutory ban on gays and lesbians adopting children was unconstitutional. This will head up to the state supreme court, and I don't know how they'll rule, but I hope the ruling is upheld and the ban overturned. That would be good both […]
One study is one study is one study, no matter how well designed
I was offered the chance to look at the Nashville merit-pay study in advance, under embargoed conditions, but my life has been crazy and I thought it was unfair to accept the offer unless I was fairly sure I could spend the time to read and blog about it in depth. So, in lieu of careful analysis, […]
Julie Janssen channels Bill Clinton circa 1995
Wow: Pinellas County superintendent Julie Janssen is proposing mandatory uniforms for K-8 students as a way to respond to concerns about achievement and in a week when the St. Pete Times has been slamming the school system with stories of alleged nepotism committed by an administrator Janssen wanted appointed as the dropout-program coordinator for the […]