A short while back, in a follow up post regarding the Chetty/Friedman/Rockoff study I wrote about how and when I … More
Month: February 2012
You’ve Been VAM-IFIED! Thoughts (& Graphs) on the NYC Teacher Data
Readers of my blog know I’m both a data geek and a skeptic of the usefulness of Value-added data specifically … More
Student Enrollments & State School Finance Policies
Most readers of the NJDOE report on reforming the state’s school finance formula likely glided right past the seemingly innocuous … More
How NOT to fix the New Jersey Achievement Gap
Late yesterday, the New Jersey Department of Education Released its long awaited report on the state school finance formula. For … More
Reformy Platitudes & Fact-Challenged Placards won’t Get Connecticut Schools what they Really Need!
For a short while yesterday – more than I would have liked to – I followed the circus of testimony … More
Borrowing wise words from those truly market-based, Private Independent schools…
Lately it seems that public policy and the reformy rhetoric that drives it are hardly influenced by the vast body … More
Productivity continued…updated…
Update Mark Dynarski has added some additional useful recommendations regarding productivity research. Dynarski’s comments come in response to our suggestions … More
Closing schools: Good Reasons and Bad Reasons
Current reformy rhetoric dictates that we MUST CLOSE FAILING SCHOOLS! That we must close those schools that are dropout factories … More
Productivity Agenda Yes! But based on real research & rigorous analysis!
Pau Hill and Marguerite Roza’s response to my recent report – with Kevin Welner – and series of blog posts … More
Newark Public Schools: Let’s Just Close the Poor Schools and Replace them with Less Poor Ones?
This week started with several individuals from the Washington DC area asking if I would address a school closure/turnaround report … More
