August 2013 Blog Posts (97)

Suggestions for Improving Teacher Evaluation

Suggestions for Improving Teacher Evaluation

In this Harvard Educational Review article, Heather Hill (Harvard University) and Pam Grossman (Stanford University) raise three concerns about recent state and district innovations in teacher evaluation. First, they believe most classroom observation instruments are generic and don’t focus on important content-specific aspects of teaching. Second, they say evaluations are mostly done by generalists…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 10, 2013 at 10:45am — No Comments

A Retirement State of Mind

Billy Joel's lyrical tune, A New York State of Mind, has been playing in my mind lately. Since retiring from public education, I have been pondering what retirement means. Joel's song and a quote from a retiree gave me pause.…

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Added by Carol Varsalona on August 10, 2013 at 9:37am — No Comments

Year 3 of Implementing the Common Core State Standards: An Overview of States' Progress and Challenges By Amber M. Winkler

Year 3 of Implementing the Common Core State Standards: An Overview of States' Progress and Challenges

By Amber M. Winkler

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Education Gadfly

With Common Core State Standards (CCSS) on the tip of everybody’s tongue and Common Core–aligned assessments expected to roll out nationally in less than…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 9, 2013 at 9:44am — No Comments

Is the day of reckoning upon us? By Kathleen Porter-Magee

Is the day of reckoning upon us?

By Kathleen Porter-Magee / August 8, 2013

Thomas Fordham Institute

Education Gadfly

On Wednesday, New York officials released results from the state’s first administration of the new, more difficult, Common Core–aligned tests. As officials warned—and as everyone knew—the results were low; shockingly low in some instances. Last year, 47 percent of New York students scored at or…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 9, 2013 at 9:32am — 1 Comment

Teaching Is The Core

On July 8, 2013, I along with 600-800 NYS educators gathered for a week full of learning and engagement at the Network Team Institute training in Albany, New York. We were charged by Deputy Commissioner Ken Slentz to become lea…
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Added by Carol Varsalona on August 8, 2013 at 10:30pm — 1 Comment

Moving from Race-Based to Class-Based Affirmative Action by David Brooks

Moving from Race-Based to Class-Based Affirmative Action

In this New York Times column, David Brooks says the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision (Fisher v. University of Texas) is “another small signal that the era of explicitly race-based affirmative action is coming to an end.” Why? Brooks believes it’s because three things have changed:

• Economic inequality is now more important than race as a source of…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 8, 2013 at 4:02pm — No Comments

Schools that Practice Learning-Literacy by David Warlick

Schools that Practice Learning-Literacy

Many months ago I spoke at a leadership conference in Vancouver. When the event was over, officials with…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 8, 2013 at 2:12pm — No Comments

Don't Worry About Your Test Scores By Peter DeWitt

Don't Worry About Your Test Scores

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Added by Michael Keany on August 8, 2013 at 1:53pm — No Comments

Common Core Test Results

Common Core Test Results

Over the next few days there will be plenty of media buzz over test scores in New York State.  These stories draw viewers, sell ad time and sell newspapers.  Ka-ching!!
As a writer I was impressed by the choice of the word, “plummet” in one headline I saw.  As a…
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Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on August 8, 2013 at 12:00pm — No Comments

The Rich Get Richer (And The Test Scores Prove It)

The Rich Get Richer (And The Test Scores Prove It)
Source: Best Education Degrees

Added by Michael Keany on August 8, 2013 at 11:38am — No Comments

Invitation to Impact Teaching and Learning

Reflective educators and lead learners,

Walk steadfastly…

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Added by Carol Varsalona on August 7, 2013 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment

ELL Advocates Call for PARCC Tests in Spanish By Lesli A. Maxwell

ELL Advocates Call for PARCC Tests in Spanish

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Added by Michael Keany on August 7, 2013 at 9:36am — No Comments

Why Business Should be A Core Curriculum in all High Schools by Alice Jenkins

Why Business Should be A Core Curriculum in all High Schools

by Alice Jenkins

 

In an era where 53% of college graduates are jobless or underemployed future graduates have little to look forward to with all of the education and skills they have acquired besides sitting in front of a computer and applying to low level jobs on craigslist. These people…

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Added by Michael Keany on August 7, 2013 at 9:00am — No Comments

The Buddha in the Attic

When I read that today was the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, I was reminded of the novel, The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka.  This Pen Faulkner award winner follows the lives of Japanese women from their journey to San Francisco to become "picture brides" for strangers, to the internment of Japanese-Americans at the onset of World War II.

A friend and I read this book for…

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Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on August 6, 2013 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Teacher Pensions and Teacher Quality: Is There a Connection? by Cory Koedel

Teacher Pensions and Teacher Quality: Is There a Connection?

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Added by Michael Keany on August 6, 2013 at 11:31am — 1 Comment

Texting, Tweeting, and Terrible Grammar in K-12 Schools By Matthew Lynch

Texting, Tweeting, and Terrible Grammar in K-12 Schools

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Added by Michael Keany on August 6, 2013 at 11:28am — No Comments

Is it good to tell a first-grader, ‘You might be a dropout?’ by Annie Murphy Paul

Acting on early signs…
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Added by Michael Keany on August 5, 2013 at 11:30pm — No Comments

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