Michael Keany's Blog – January 2012 Archive (46)

We Know Which Teachers to Fire by Lance T. Izumi

We Know Which Teachers to Fire

Lance T. Izumi

Lance T. Izumi is the senior director of education studies at the Pacific Research Institute.

UPDATED JANUARY 16, 2012, 7:00 PM…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 17, 2012 at 8:47am — No Comments

Let’s Not Rush Into Value-Added Evaluations by Jesse Rothstein

Let’s Not Rush Into Value-Added Evaluations

Jesse Rothstein

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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Added by Michael Keany on January 17, 2012 at 8:46am — No Comments

Results Are In; How Will We Respond? by Arun Ramanathan

Results Are In; How Will We Respond?

Arun Ramanathan

Arun Ramanathan is the executive director of The Education Trust—West.

UPDATED JANUARY 16, 2012, 7:00 PM

There is plenty of …

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Added by Michael Keany on January 17, 2012 at 8:44am — No Comments

Test Scores Are Only a Snapshot by Dawn Shirk

Test Scores Are Only a Snapshot

Dawn Shirk

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

UPDATED JANUARY 16, 2012, 7:00 PM

Traditionally, teachers have been observed by their principal once a year, and evaluated solely on…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 17, 2012 at 8:43am — No Comments

The Value of Test Scores by Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman

The Value of Test Scores

Raj Chetty  John N. Friedman

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."

UPDATED JANUARY 16, 2012, 7:00…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 17, 2012 at 8:42am — No Comments

Google or Apple: I Don't Want to Choose by Ryan Bretag

Google or Apple: I Don't Want to Choose

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 01:40 PM PST

By Ryan Bretag | @ryanbretag

Apple is set to make an "…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 13, 2012 at 9:48pm — No Comments

The Value of Teachers By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

January 11, 2012
NY Times

The Value of Teachers

Suppose your child is about to enter the fourth grade and has been assigned to an excellent…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 12, 2012 at 9:02am — No Comments

Instead of Complaining About Teachers, Become One by Shaun Johnson

Shaun Johnson

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Added by Michael Keany on January 11, 2012 at 12:11pm — No Comments

Three Steps to Fix Our Schools -- Baltimore Sun

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…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 11, 2012 at 8:10am — No Comments

Kremer: Don't forget the unfunded mandates

Kremer: Don't forget the unfunded mandates

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

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Added by Michael Keany on January 10, 2012 at 9:08am — No Comments

Give Students Mobile Devices to Maximize Their Learning Time by Chris Dede

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 …

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Added by Michael Keany on January 9, 2012 at 4:36pm — No Comments

The Anatomy of Education Deform by Assailed Teacher

The Anatomy of Education Deform

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It starts with a study like …

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Added by Michael Keany on January 9, 2012 at 10:31am — No Comments

The Real World, Not MTV Style by Eric Sheninger

The Real World, Not MTV Style

noreply@blogger.com (Eric Sheninger) Jan 8, 2012 10:32 AM - …

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Added by Michael Keany on January 9, 2012 at 10:24am — No Comments

The Politicization Of Educational Research by Leo Casey

The Politicization Of Educational Research

Last Friday, an analysis of the “value-added” contributions of public school teachers authored by a trio of…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 9, 2012 at 9:25am — No Comments

Analysis: Cuomo picks fight with schools, gets one

Analysis: Cuomo picks fight with schools, gets one…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 8, 2012 at 9:56am — No Comments

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

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…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 7, 2012 at 2:44pm — No Comments

Five Steps to Widening the College Pipeline for African American and Latino Students BY DANIELLE MOSS LEE

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…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 6, 2012 at 1:42pm — No Comments

Message to New Teachers for a New Year: Patience, Persistence and Peace BY LISA MICHELLE DABBS

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…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 6, 2012 at 1:41pm — No Comments

A New Year's Goal: Stop Giving So Much Homework BY ELENA AGUILAR

A New Year's Goal: Stop Giving So Much Homework

BY ELENA AGUILAR

1/4/12

Edutopia

A former teacher and instructional coach, Elena Aguilar is now a transformational leadership coach in the Oakland Unified School District.

Setting goals, resolutions, or intentions might be on our minds this week. We've probably experienced that "resolutions" don't work --…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 6, 2012 at 1:40pm — No Comments

TV Parents: What Values Do They Convey? by Meryl Ain

TV Parents: What Values Do They Convey?…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 5, 2012 at 1:26pm — No Comments

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