Another look at Career and Technical Education Inn EdWeek, May 7, Mike Rose of UCLA wrote a wonderful piece that compliments my commentary of 9/27/14 on Shopcraft as Soulcraft. Rose has written a recent book entitled The Mind at Work: … Continue reading
Exams As Study Aids
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‘Why Flunking Exams is Actually a Good Thing” The September 7, 2014 edition of the New York Times Magazine, Education Issue, has several very interesting and provocative articles. Benedict Carey writes “Why Flunking Exams is Actually a Good Thing,” an … Continue reading
No Charter School Data: Oversight or Intentional Distortion?
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Charter Schools Are Opaque In the October 13 edition of The Nation, Pedro Noguera wrote about the continuing dearth of real data documenting the performance of charter schools. This movement, once supported by Albert Shanker and others as laboratories for … Continue reading
New Research on Instability of Teacher Evaluation Metrics
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Current Teacher Evaluation Metrics are Unstable The Education Policy Analysis Archives has just published (Oct 6, 2014) “The Stability of Teacher Performance and Effectiveness: Implication for Policies Concerning Teacher Evaluation,” by Morgan, Hodge, Trepinski and Anderson. This is a well-designed … Continue reading