Test Scores Are Only a Snapshot

Dawn Shirk teaches English as a second language at Reidsville Middle School and Reidsville High School in Reidsville, N.C.

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The Value of Test Scores

 

Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman, economists at Harvard, and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia co-wrote the recent study "The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood."

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These goals for excellence in education encompass all the areas of the public school curriculum that are necessary to become an informed voter and a contributing citizen at age 18: English, Reading and Speech, Library and Research Skills, Mathematics and Science, Technology, Social Studies, Foreign Languages, Physical Education, Athletics, Health, Business, The Cultural Arts and the Performing Arts. …

An Open Letter To Public-School Teachers Throughout The United States

The United States Department of Education (ED) “Race to the Top” is a thinly disguised effort at union busting and an effort to eliminate all the gains that collective bargaining have brought to teachers and their profession in the last 35 years.

The…

Google or Apple: I Don't Want to Choose

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 01:40 PM PST

The Value of Teachers

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Three Steps to Fix Our Schools

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Baltimore Sun

The nation's public schools have been battered by a continuing stream of bad news in the past few years, challenging what at one time was considered one of the world's leading education systems.

In 2010, the results of international testing comparing students in 34 developed countries showed a stunning decline in U.S. test scores. The U.S. had sunk to the middle of…

Today,  #Edchat’s first Topic was:  Which should we support first for the best result, a reform in student learning (teaching methods), or a reform in teacher learning (PD)? I did have a preference when I made up the question, but I saved my opinion for the chat. There were a few comments about this being a question similar to: which came first, the chicken or the egg? I didn’t see it that way. I was simply looking for the most immediate way to affect needed change in a system…

Kremer: Don't forget the unfunded mandates

Published: January 9, 2012 5:49 PM

By TIMOTHY G. KREMER

Newsday

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Timothy G. Kremer is executive director of the New York State School Boards…

Give Students Mobile Devices to Maximize Their Learning Time

Chris Dede //Jan. 5, 2012 

The Education Department’s 2010 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) presents a transformational vision for …

The Anatomy of Education Deform

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The Politicization Of Educational Research

New York State Education Reform and Misplaced Religiosity

by: Katie Zahedi

Diane Ravitch discusses the formidable pressures brought to bear on state departments of education by political and corporate sponsors to move ahead with reforms, but is this the only reason that NYSED is ignoring the wide-spread concerns of the state's principals. I find it hard to believe that anyone, including New York SED leadership could be so dedicated without a trace of beneficence in the mix.…

Economists to teachers: We’ve dropped the “Deselection” and moved straight to “Fire ‘em”

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Cedar Riener

I had a few thoughts about the big teacher quality and VAM study that came out today that I wanted to share before…

Five Steps to Widening the College Pipeline for African American and Latino Students

BY DANIELLE MOSS LEE

1/5/12

Edutopia

Dr. Danielle Moss Lee (@HEAFNYC on Twitter) is President and CEO at Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF). With a…

Message to New Teachers for a New Year: Patience, Persistence and Peace

BY LISA MICHELLE DABBS 

1/4/12

Edutopia

Lisa M. Dabbs M.Ed. (@teachingwthsoul on Twitter) is the facilitator of Edutopia's New Teacher…