Sobering NAEP scores for Fresno, LA - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Fresno Unified Superintendent Michael Hanson chose to have his district join San Diego, Los Angeles and other urban districts participating in the biannual analysis of scores in the nation’s report card, the National Assessment of Education Progress. The results for 2011, released this week, were unsettling. In both reading and math, Fresno ranked among the lowest [...]
Facing some inconvenient truths about reforming teacher evaluations - by Merrill Vargo
Good teaching matters. Yet most teacher evaluations are compliance-driven checklists that have little or no impact on teaching and learning. The question is not whether teacher evaluation should be improved, but what the goals of the new processes we seek should be. The received wisdom is that better evaluations would [...]