“Threats to school reform … are within school reform” Threats to school reform … are within school reform is an excellent guest post in the Washington Post’s Answer Sheet blog. It’s by Mike Rose. Here’s an excerpt: *As someone who has lived through several periods of educational reform and has studied ...
Joliprint Is A Great Way To Print-Out Webpages If you want to print out a webpage, or an article from a website, just paste the url address into Joliprint and you will get a very, very nice-looking PDF document that’s laid-out a lot cleaner and in a more accessible than anything you’ll get by ...
“Data-Driven…Off a Cliff” Data-Driven…Off a Cliff is the title of an excellent post by Robert Pondiscio. It’s a nice commentary on what can happen by being “data-driven” instead of being “data-informed.”
Will New York City Make Teacher’s “Value-Added” Scores Public On Friday? Thanks to the Los Angeles Times’ irresponsible decision to publicize the so-called “value-added” scores of teachers (see The Best Posts About The LA Times Article On “Value-Added” Teacher Ratings), it appears that New York City is hoping to do the ...