Even if you think the Obama administration’s signature education program, Race to the Top, will not help a single child in America learn…
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Throughout history, there are numerous examples of smart people who have made poor decisions. At the time, they may have thought that the decision seemed logical, appropriate and promised that positive changes would result. We have all read stories of well-respected people who have made incredibly ill-conceived statements, policies, and proclamations that in hindsight were misguided, short-sighted and downright wrong. Here's a grievous example of one of those…
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WARNING: “Control-Oriented Efforts Can Sabotage Student Motivation”
Joan R. Fretz
There are many controls being placed on American schools, their leaders and their teachers. Many outside our school walls say these controls are necessary. They want American students to have strong literacy and computation skills and to be creative problem solvers and innovative…
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NY Times
Even if you think the Obama administration’s signature education program, Race to the Top, will not help a single child in America learn…
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This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging…
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I'm certainly one of the lucky ones. I can proudly say that my teacher preparation included a strong background in developmental theory, curriculum design, and student-centered pedagogy at Bank…
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Note: Patricia Dickenson, a former elementary school teacher in Los Angeles, is…
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All of the controversy about teacher evaluation is driven by the federally mandated Race To The Top. Unfortunately nowhere is the “top” precisely defined and the educrats who conceived and established the Race To The Top forgot that any race to the top begins at the bottom and they neglected to identify the “bottom” from which we are supposed to race to the “top.”…
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Attack VAM before it is too late
Classroom teachers and building principals must join together and attack Value-Added Modeling (VAM) as a method for classroom teacher evaluation much less a measure of student performance and teacher effectiveness.
In New…
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Sydney Morris is a former public school teacher and the co-founder of Educators 4 Excellence, a national nonprofit that seeks to elevate the voices of teachers in education policy.
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Lance T. Izumi is the senior director of education studies at the Pacific Research Institute.
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Jesse Rothstein is an associate professor of public policy and economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has studied the relationship between classroom assignments and estimates of "value-added" by teachers.…
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Arun Ramanathan is the executive director of The Education Trust—West.
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There is plenty of …
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Dawn Shirk teaches English as a second language at Reidsville Middle School and Reidsville High School in Reidsville, N.C.
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Traditionally, teachers have been observed by their principal once a year, and evaluated solely on…
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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. …
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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…
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