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So another few evaluation reports have been released with little evidence of student achievement flowing from performance-pay systems. This is going to sound like a broken record from me, but I don’t make too much out of one or two studies in policy research. These studies on systems in Chicago and New York confirm something […]
The value of college III
Part of the value of a good college education is that much of it is surplus. In the same way that the early nineteenth-century education of women could have been perceived as superfluous, a good deal of what students learn could be seen as not directly or immediately useful in their lives. To some economists, […]
More on so-called “side deals”
Andy Rotherham has responded to my blog entry early this morning. Let me skip for now the question of why he was the sole person quoted in the article and address the local MOUs in Florida on Race to the Top. Rotherham wrote in part, “If these agreements have no bearing on the state’s application […]
Correcting the facts on so-called RTTT “side deals”
In Wednesday’s paper, St. Petersburg Times reporter Ron Matus relied on the sloppy language “some say” to spin a mountain out of a molehill about county-specific MOUs between school boards and local FEA affiliates. In the article as well as two blog entries Wednesday and Thursday, Matus stated that there were a number of counties […]
Quips on Race to the Top and Common Standards
From late morning until a few minutes ago, I’ve spent the day under a cloud of variously-intensive headache pain. I’m free of it but also exhausted, so in the zeitgeist of evidence-free punditry about RTTT and Common Standards, here are some thoughts: If my memory and reading are correct, none of the national press outside […]