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Jonathan Becker

Ruling: Fired D.C. teachers must be offered jobs, back wages | Lisa Gartner | DC | Wash... - 2 views

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ADMS707 education reform tenure teaching due process leadership

shared by Jonathan Becker on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Jonathan Becker on 09 Feb 11
     
    Ruling: Fired D.C. teachers must be offered jobs, back wages Yeah, due process is kinda important...
  • stephlennon on 11 Feb 11
     
    Maybe DC can use her share of the profits from "Waiting for Superman" to pay for this!
  • Phil Riddle on 13 Feb 11
     
    Such a contrast to Virginia. Here you can be let go during your first three years in a school system with no explanation whatsoever.
stephlennon

Fired superintendent sends email thanking Seattle Public Schools staff - 0 views

www.king5.com/...c-Schools-staff-117371848.html

ADMS707 superintendent Lennon

shared by stephlennon on 04 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • stephlennon on 04 Mar 11
     
    Well, if you steal $1.8 million, you SHOULD thank someone...read the related articles to the right of the article. There is alot of responsibility financially being a superintendent- #1 : don't steal the money!
REL N

D.C. schools to use data from teacher evaluation system in new ways - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2011021302584.html

ADMS707 Evidence-based Decision-making VAModels Niemeyer

shared by REL N on 16 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • by matching teachers' ratings to the universities they attended, officials are deciding which pipelines deliver the best, or worst, talent.
  • "We'll just stop taking graduates from institutions that aren't producing effective teachers."
  • Teacher ratings from one cluster of schools might be compared with those from another cluster to assess how a particular instructional superintendent is faring. Principals will be judged in part by the number of "highly effective" teachers they are able to retain from year to year. Instructional coaches will be held accountable for the ratings of the teachers they coach.
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  • Critics of value-added evaluation models, who have objected to using the data to fire teachers, say that expanding their use is unwise at this point. "The core problem with these data is the creation of incentives to narrow the curriculum," said Richard Rothstein, a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute and one of the authors of a recent report critical of value-added evaluations.
  • "It's never been piloted, never been tested," Saunders said. "And the conclusions made using IMPACT as a basis will be just as flawed as the instrument they rely upon."
  • REL N on 16 Feb 11
     
    DC is expanding the use of the data from value-added evaluation models. "And the conclusions made using IMPACT as a basis will be just as flawed as the instrument they rely upon."
Victoria Schnettler

Providence Officials Give Precautionary Layoff Notices To ALL The City's Teachers - 1 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...-teacher-layoffs_n_827461.html

ADMS707 education teachers fired

shared by Victoria Schnettler on 24 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Victoria Schnettler on 24 Feb 11
     
    how scary....every teacher given a pink slip....cruel and unusual punishment?
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