After this pandemic is over with (or at least sufficiently in the background of American life to warrant little comment), plan to go into a classroom and ask yourself, does this classroom have life?” That’s the key test of whether there’s any real learning going on. There could be fake learning going on, to be...Read More
In this blog post, I’d like to talk about what they call ‘’value added’’ measures in school reform. Basically, this means judging teachers according to the standardized test results that their students get over the course of the year. First, let me say something about the term ‘’value added’’ because at first glance an unassuming...Read More
Teachers have been taking it on the chin a lot lately with calls for the abolishment of tenure, and its replacement with what have been called “value-added models” of teaching evaluation. Basically, what this means is that teachers are going to be increasingly assessed in terms of their ability to raise the standardized test scores of their students. ...Read More
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