TMoE Excerpt
Posted some days ago @thechalkface:Part of the story we tell in TMoE focuses on how value-added modeling (VAM) grew up out of the backwoods of Tennessee to become an essential component of the national Common Core testing delivery engine that now appears to be running on fumes way short of its destination.Had anyone at the Gates Foundation or ED cared enough about how VAM has affected learning in
Achievement Gap? Nope, parts 1 and 2
The term “achievement gap” is misleading and thus one of the problems with the education reform debate.Please see the following posts addressing why:Achievement Gap Misnomer for Equity Gap, pt. 1Achievement Gap Misnomer for Equity Gap, pt. 2
New Report on Race to the Top Finds Many Wrecks in the Ditch or Over the Cliff
EPI and The Broader, Bolder Approach have an important important report on how things are going with Race to the Top (RTTT), or as it may be more aptly known, HUAP (Hurry Up and Privatize). In examining what the states have done to get some of Arne's 3.4 billion bucks, the authors find confusion, conflict, corruptionism, confoundedness, and cautious dread (that's as optimistic as it gets in RTTT
Alison Stewart's Great History of D.C.'s Dunbar High School
Alison Stewart's First Class brings us full circle. Actually, Stewart guides us through a variety of recurring social, moral, and educational cycles that undoubtedly will continue to repeat themselves in one way or another. Her history of the rise and fall of Washington D.C.'s elite Dunbar High School tells a story that cannot be ignored if we really believe that education can be the civil rights
Alison Stewart’s First Class brings us full circle. Actually, Stewart guides us through a variety of recurring social, moral, and educational cycles that undoubtedly will continue to repeat themselves in one way or another. Her history of the rise and fall of Washington D.C.’s elite Dunbar High School tells a story that cannot be ignored if we really believe that education can be the civil rights
Schools Matter: George Schmidt's Review of The Mismeasure of Education
Schools Matter: George Schmidt's Review of The Mismeasure of Education: George Schmidt's Review of The Mismeasure of EducationWe are back home!, and I have to say it feels pretty good. The folks over at Chalkface are great, and we had a great time there, but you know there's no place like home, right? So we will be here at SM until we win, and then we will continue to be here to defend democrati
