The value of college IV
In comments over the past few weeks, Glen McGhee has been doing a lot of work making the argument for a credentialist lens for higher education. And two weeks ago, Jose Vilson’s Memorial Day blog entry raised the perennial question of what we’re supposed to be educating our children for. So let me address the […]
Collegiate Lying Assessment?
I should be asleep, but it’s summer, we’ve released our teenage son from stricter bedtimes, and he is practicing sax. Most of the tasks on my plate require a little more concentration than I can muster after midnight, so I will write instead about lying, or whether we can tell much about someone’s skills when […]
Designed to reward age discrimination?
The French government is proposing to raise the age when retirees can draw down full pensions, which sounds remarkably like the 1980s reform of Social Security, including the bump of two years, except that France is going from 60 to 62 and we’re already at 67… and a logical compromise for extending the solvency of […]
I read Giroux recently and winced…
… and then wrote an essay on another blog on how to save teacher education. Or not if your mileage varies from mine, but at least you get to read me swear.
What uses of test scores will pass legal muster in teacher evaluations?
Legal considerations on the use of test score derived stats in teacher evaluation: Scott Bauries started an interesting discussion June 2 of value-added measures and teacher evaluations from a legal perspective. It’s very important to read the comment thread, as he’s challenged on his conclusions by Bruce Baker and Preston Green, especially with regard to […]