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The Central Hypocrisy of the NCTQ Teacher Prep Institution Ratings
I’ve already written about this topic in the past. But, given that NCTQ has just come out with their really, really big new ratings of teacher preparation institutions… with their primary objective of declaring teacher prep by traditional colleges and universities in the U.S. a massive failure, I figured I should once again revisit why […]
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Revisiting the Chetty, Rockoff & Friedman Molehill
June 9, 2013
My kids and I don’t watch enough Phineas and Ferb anymore. Awesome show. I was reminded just yesterday of this great device! This… is the Mountain-Out-Of-A-Molehill-INATOR! The name is rather self-explanatory – but here’s the official explanation anyway: The Mountain-out-of-a-molehill-inator turns molehills into big mountains. It uses energy pellets to do so. It was created […]
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Rebutting (again) the Persistent Flow of Disinformation on VAM, SGP and Teacher Evaluation
June 8, 2013
This post is in response to testimony overheard from recent presentations to the New Jersey State Board of Education. For background and more thorough explanations of issues pertaining to the use of Value-added Models and Student Growth Percentiles please see the following two sources: Baker, B.D., Oluwole, J., Green, P.C. III (2013) The legal consequences […]
The Disturbing Inequities of the New Normal
June 5, 2013
I wrote a post a while back, providing an overview of the basics of state school finance formulas, reforms and why they matter. I revisit this post having how conducted more extensive analysis of the retreat from school funding equity over the period from 2005 through 2011 (most recent available federal school finance data). Let’s […]
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The Dramatic Retreat from Funding Equity in New Jersey: Evidence from the Census Fiscal Survey
May 30, 2013
I have explained in numerous previous posts how New Jersey is among those states that operates a reasonably progressive state school finance system, that New Jersey, throughout the 1990s and early 2000s put the effort into disrupting the relationship between local community income and school spending. And, during that period, New Jersey’s low income students […]
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Follow-up: Title I Funding DOES NOT Make Rich States Richer!
May 30, 2013
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In one of my earliest posts, I took on a myth created and shared by many DC Think Tanks that the Title I funding formula inappropriately favors “rich states” and school districts in urban areas. This myth has its origins in a handful of policy papers and poorly constructed analyses, some of which eventually made […]
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I don’t know anything about them, but they suck! Reformy thoughts on Ed Schools
May 27, 2013
It all started here, when Ben Riley of NSVF suggested that comments from Finnish Ed Guru Pasi Sahlberg (hero of the anti-reformers) regarding teacher preparation in Finland (and elsewhere) meant that the U.S. really needed to start shutting down teacher preparation programs. Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley 1hDon’t look now, but I think Finnish edu-guru @pasi_sahlberg is […]
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