{"id":6099,"date":"2013-06-18T11:01:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T15:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=6099"},"modified":"2013-06-18T11:01:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T15:01:40","slug":"the-can-we-do-better-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=6099","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;can we do better?&#8221; standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blogs\/brown-center-chalkboard\/posts\/2013\/06\/12-effective-teacher-evaluation-k12-education-kane\">Last Thursday&#8217;s commentary by Tom Kane<\/a> in the Brookings Institute education blog is an interesting new argument around teacher evaluation. He suggests that the modal first-year\/novice teacher performance is the proper criterion for giving teachers permanent employment status (he uses the word <em>tenure<\/em> inappropriately here). As a hypothetical, Kane&#8217;s column\u00a0moves us away from an algorithmic approach (I hope!) and towards a realistic question that are on most sane principals&#8217; minds anyway: if I recommended dismissal of this teacher, am I likely to get someone better instead?<\/p>\n<p>This reality-based question is not a formula that converts value-added measures, scores on Danielson- or Marzano-lite performance rubrics, and student\/parent surveys into a single number that must be used in the same way whether you are in a big city or in the rural hinterlands. For that, I welcome Kane&#8217;s comments. He adds in a bit of shadow-play from game theory &#8212; what\u00a0<em>should<\/em> happen to expectations of experienced teachers when novice teachers&#8217; performance is improving &#8212; but I&#8217;d stick with the question I think most school administrators understand and use when looking at a whole host of policies and issues regarding teacher performance: what would actually change if I denied permanent status to a teacher?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday&#8217;s commentary by Tom Kane in the Brookings Institute education blog is an interesting new argument around teacher evaluation. He suggests that the modal first-year\/novice teacher performance is the proper criterion for giving teachers permanent employment status (he uses the word tenure inappropriately here). As a hypothetical, Kane&#8217;s column\u00a0moves us away from an algorithmic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability-frankenstein","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-1An","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6099"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6104,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions\/6104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}