This post includes a few more preliminary musings regarding the use of value-added measures and student growth percentiles for teacher … More
Month: April 2012
The Toxic Trifecta, Bad Measurement & Evolving Teacher Evaluation Policies
This post contains my preliminary thoughts in development for a forthcoming article dealing with the intersection between statistical and measurement … More
Real Reform versus Fake Reformy Distractions: More Implications from NJ & MA for CT!
Recently, I responded to an absurd and downright disturbing Op-Ed by a Connecticut education reform organization that claimed that Connecticut … More
Follow up on Reformy Logic in Connecticut
A few days ago, I responded to an utterly silly CT Ed Reform op-ed which argued that poverty doesn’t really … More
Friday Thoughts: Is there really a point to advocating both standardization and choice?
I’ve long been perplexed that the Thomas B. Fordham Institute frames as its top two policy priorities: Implementing the Common … More
The Principal’s Dilemma
This is a bit of tangential post for this blog, but it’s a topic a few of us have been … More
Baseless Reformy Thoughts from Connecticut (& How this year’s reforms improved decades of past performance!?)
This utterly absurd post appeared yesterday on the CT Ed Reform blog: http://ctedreform.org/blog/2012/04/poverty-is-not-to-blame-ct%E2%80%99s-low-income-students-rank-48th-in-the-nation-while-ma%E2%80%99s-rank-2nd/ Essentially, the argument goes: CT’s achievement gap … More
