Those lousy veteran teachers. Tom Hoffman comments: *I noticed this line in Dan Goldstein’s recent article: “value-added measurement, which attempts to quantify the impact teachers have on their students’ academic growth while controlling for factors such as poverty, race, class ...
Ken Swanson on Stand for Children. Then and now. Ken Swanson last December: *SFC, which is funded by some of the country’s wealthiest people, has seen success in other states. In Colorado, SFC passed legislation that reformed tenure, teacher evaluation, principal evaluation, teacher placement and ...
What has Swanson wrought? Surrendering seniority in layoffs. “Bring on the business model.” Paul Phillips comments: *This will require some cultural shift…until now the younger teachers have been like proteges. Now they will be the competition. And if that’s the ethos of the public school, I can tell you I am NOT gonna lose to them. We’ll ..
