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Friday, April 13, 2012

Schools Matter: Duncan's ED: We Need to Double Down on Irrational and Unscientific Practices

Schools Matter: Duncan's ED: We Need to Double Down on Irrational and Unscientific Practices:


Duncan's ED: We Need to Double Down on Irrational and Unscientific Practices

An email from Monty Neill alerted me to the latest development by today's Corporate Stalinists at ED to judge teacher education programs on the basis value-added test scores of students who are taught by the graduates of these teacher ed programs.  Got that?  No, it's too late for April Fool's.

To the credit of some sanity remaining in DC education circles, the "negotiations" for the new rule making by ED have broken down. 
Especially contentious were proposals to evaluate teacher education programs based in part on their graduates’ job placement rates, employers’ satisfaction with graduates they hired, and