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“Value-Added” for Teacher Preparation Programs? Your Comments Needed NOW on Proposed Regulation Changes

January 27, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

UPDATED February 2, 2015:  We submitted the link to this post to the official regulations.gov site where it was recorded. At the time of sending, almost 3500 comments from teachers, faculty at GSEs (graduate schools of education), and others with an interest in the training of public school teachers had submitted comments. In our submission, […]

Filed Under: Educators, Federal Policy, Fixes, Research Tagged With: Arne Duncan, Department of Education, Title II, United States Department of Education, Value Added Methodologies, Value-added

The Failed Microsoft Corporate Origins of "Value-Added" Teacher Rankings

July 5, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Readers of the Vanity Fair piece highlighting Microsoft’s decade of failure to innovate and resulting loss of market share can’t help but notice the close parallels between that company’s decline and their corporate practice of “stack ranking.” “Stack ranking,” as described in “Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Software […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Ed Tech, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Gates Foundation, Microsoft, Value-added

Connecticut Governor Malloy Calls Rhee 'Divisive', Declines A Joint Appearance

February 22, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

The Connecticut Parents Union is a statewide community-based group led by Gwen Samuel, a parent with a child in the New Haven city schools. The group had arranged a March 14, 2012 meeting with the Governor of Connecticut, Daniel Malloy, as part of a rally planned for that day. But Governor Malloy decided not to […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: DCPS, Michelle Rhee, parent engagement, Trigger, Value-added

#OccupyBigEd

December 31, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

When Republican Congressmen vote against higher nutrition standards for children’s school lunches, carrying out the wishes of “Big Ag” by making the tomato sauce on school lunch pizza the equivalent of a vegetable, we instantly know what that means. Public interests have been sold out again, and we the public have to rally our forces […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Charters, Conservative Ed Reform, Michelle Rhee, OccupyBigEd, online learning, Save Our Schools, Value-added

LAUSD Releases Its Own "Value-Added" Rankings of Schools

April 15, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

The LA Times and LAUSD are focused on “value-added” measurements of teacher performance based on student standardized tests, despite flaws in methodology and data. Why is this foundation-driven effort–outside of any democratic process or accountability to the public–shaping the debate?

Filed Under: Los Angeles Tagged With: LAUSD, Value-added

Go Read It: Columbia Journalism Review–"Tested: Covering Schools in the Age of Micro-Measurement"

March 8, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Release of “value-added” student achievement scores as a way to measure teachers in the Los Angeles Times (and an attempt to release them in the NY Times) has roiled the discussion on education policy as shaped by billionaire philanthropists and business-minded school superintendents. The Columbia Journalism Review exhaustively documents editorial debates over the release of the data.

Filed Under: Los Angeles, New York City, Research Tagged With: Value-added

Evaluating Teachers: Data-Driven vs. Peer-Driven, or, Wal-Mart vs. Etsy

December 30, 2010 by K12NN Site Admin

News flash: a test score doesn’t reflect every classroom situation or measure growth of the whole child.

Filed Under: Educators, New York City Tagged With: Value-added

Go Read It: Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Paper on Student-Surveyed Teacher Effectiveness

December 13, 2010 by K12NN Site Admin

Read the entire study (Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Paper on student-surveyed teacher effectiveness), posted here by the LA Times.

Filed Under: Educators, Students Tagged With: Los Angeles, Value-added

Students Know What Makes for Effective Teaching

December 12, 2010 by K12NN Site Admin

Students have savvy things to say about how effective their teachers are in helping them learn.

Filed Under: Educators, Innovations, Research, Students Tagged With: Value-added

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Quick Education Voter’s Guide to the California CD34 Race, April 4, 2017

There are twenty-three candidates running to fill former Congressman Xavier Bacerra’s seat in Congressional District 34 in Southern California. (Bacerra is currently the state’s Attorney General, replacing Kamala Harris, who, after November 8, 2016, became our US Senator.) Election Day is Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 7:00 am to 8:00 pm. You can find your polling […]

Betsy DeVos, #NOTMYSDOE

Take the pledge to #resist and fight for public schools as a public good TODAY. DeVos had to have the assistance of Vice President Mike Pence’s unprecedented tie-breaking vote in order to win her confirmation. Two GOP Senators voted against, all Democratic Senators voted against. Yet all the other GOP Senators who received campaign donations […]

Next #DemDebate MUST Include K-12 Education Policy

The next #DemDebate is scheduled for the important primary state of Iowa on November 14, 2015. It’ll be broadcast by CBS in partnership with the Des Moines Register. Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig is leading the call for the families of 50 million students K-12 across the nation and the communities they live in to have […]

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