Teacher Selection: Smart Selection vs. Dumb Selection « School Finance 101 - 0 views
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I had a twitter argument the other day about a blog posting that compared the current debate around "de-selection" of bad teachers to eugenics. It is perhaps a bit harsh to compare Hanushek (cited author of papers on de-selecting bad teachers) to Hitler, if that was indeed the intent. However, I did not take that as the intent of the posting by Cedar Riener. Offensive or not, I felt that the blog posting made 3 key points about errors of reasoning that apply to both eugenecists and to those promoting empirical de-selection of fixed shares of the teacher workforce.
Schooling in the Ownership Society: New ed fiefdom: The Murdoch/Gates alliance - 0 views
Top School Jobs: What HR Should Know About Value-Added Data - 2 views
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As a growing number of states move toward legislation that would institute teacher merit pay, the debate around whether and how to use student test scores in high-stakes staffing decisions has become even more hotly contested. The majority of merit pay initiatives, such as those recently proposed in Ohio and Florida, rely to some extent on value-added estimation, the method of measuring a teacher's impact by tracking student growth on test scores from year to year. We recently exchanged e-mails with Steven Glazerman, a Senior Fellow at the policy research group Mathematica. Glazerman specializes in teacher recruitment, performance management, professional development, and compensation. According to Glazerman, a strong understanding of the constructive uses and limitations of value-added data can prove beneficial for district-level human resources practitioners.
Weighing Rights of Parents in Adjacent School Districts - Walt Gardner's Reality Check ... - 0 views
Battleground:Education - Who's 'The Decider' for Public Schools? | Think Tank | Big Think - 1 views
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Public education is a communal good, like public roads, law enforcement, and national defense. Such communal goods are paid for by all of us, regardless of whether we use them, and must be controlled via democratic decision-making that reflects the will of the majority while ensuring equal rights for the minority.
Save Our Schools Rocks the Capital! - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher - 0 views
How to Mold Public Opinion Against Public Schools - Walt Gardner's Reality Check - Educ... - 1 views
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Two of the most effective tools of propagandists are to tell a big lie so often that it is accepted as undeniable truth, and to create a scapegoat for the anger and frustration that the public feels. An op-ed by Ted Nugent published on Jul. 29 in the Washington Times is a page torn from the textbook used in Propaganda 101 ("NEA - master of disaster").
New Orleans public school achievement gap is narrowing | NOLA.com - 0 views
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State data show that 53 percent of African-American youngsters in New Orleans scored at grade level or better on state tests this spring, compared with 51 percent of black students across Louisiana. Just four years ago, only 32 percent of black students in New Orleans had achieved grade level, compared with 43 percent statewide.
NYC Public School Parents: Our daily newpapers: four different takes on NYC test scores - 0 views
Student Selection, Attrition, and Replacement in KIPP Middle Schools - 1 views
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