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When Gates MET value-added
With lots of debate about how much we can rely upon student achievement value-added scores to evaluate teachers, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation just weighed-in, in a timely manner, with some...
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Students should play a role in teacher evaluations
As the debate continues over the use of “value-added” measures to evaluate teachers, a new study has emerged which compares the results of value added measures of teachers to student surveys about...
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Hire well, then trust your teachers
Editor’s note: Peter Huidekoper, Jr., is a veteran educator and creator of the “Another View” newsletter. I split my 18-years of teaching between public and private schools (three schools and close to...
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Two stalwarts throw down the gauntlet
Tony Bennett and Paul Pastorek Two firebrand stalwarts of the “market-based” education reform movement addressed a roomful of state legislators and state officials Monday morning on the cusp of the...
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The next Wisconsin?
The Providence, R.I. school board voted Thursday to send termination letters to all its 1,926 teachers. Sounds drastic, doesn’t it? And why might the school board have done this? According to the...
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Advancing teacher quality in Colorado
This post was submitted by Sandi Jacobs. She is vice president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) a non-partisan, non-profit research and advocacy group committed to increasing the...
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Effectiveness Council grade: Partially effective
Van Schoales is executive director of Education Reform Now, a national advocacy group based in Denver. Last week the State Council for Educator Effectiveness released the long awaited report on...
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Effectiveness Council recommendations ‘comprehensive’
This post and the one that follows present starkly different views of the work of the State Council for Educator Effectiveness, which issued its report to the State Board of Education last week. This...
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Case study: How not to cut a teacher
Mark Sass, a teacher since 1994, teaches at Legacy High School in the Adams Five Star School District. Public policy reflects our values. Embedded within the arcane and obtuse language of policy is...
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Teachers making a difference in implementing SB-191
Mark Sass, a teacher since 1994, teaches at Legacy High School in the Adams Five Star School District. Kudos to the Denver New Millennium Initiative (NMI) teachers for their work on the Denver Report....
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