The Necessity of Teacher Engagement
As teacher shortages grow, inspiring teachers to stay in the classroom is a legitimate consideration in the design of schools, courses, and curriculum....
evaluation
BREAKING: Education Department Shifts Course on Testing
The Education Department put out a press release today signaling a noteworthy shift in their education policies pertaining to standardized testing; it looks like the kind of change many of us have bee...
Does Political “Cover” Produce Effective Policy?
We don't go into teaching to raise test scores; we go into teaching to promote a much wider variety of skills that are poorly measured by tests, if they're measured at all....
Fundamental Attribution Error
A hopefully useful re-post from my InterACT blogging days. This morning’s general session at the ASCD conference featured a talk by Chip Heath, a Stanford professor and author (with his brother, Dan...
VAM on Trial (Re-posted from InterACT)
In New York right now, a teacher is suing the state over the use of value-added measures in teacher evaluations, claiming that the current system “actually punishes excellence in education through a...