The Facts, Not the Spin, about Washington D.C.'s IMPACT Evaluation System
As U.C.L.A. School of Management Professor Samuel Culbert explained, a performance evaluation is as much of, "an expression of the evaluator's self-interests as it is a subordinate's attributes." Culbert argued that the institution of professional performance reviews is, "as destructive and fraudulent as it is ubiquitous." It is not just in educational evaluations where "a
Chief for Change, Janet Barresi, Doubles Down on Meaningless School Grading System
Chief Barresi What if the scientific community reveals that a state school policy produces meaningless and misleading results that conceal deep inequalities and mask others? If you are one of Jeb Bush's Chiefs, you smile, ignore the facts, and proceed as if nothing happened:News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports |
Terry Grier Makes Houston Schools Awful Enough to Win the Broad Prize
The picture above is of Arne Duncan and Eli Broad having a swell time at Barack Obama's inauguration party in 2008. The picture below is Arne and Eli in 2013, this time accompanied by the poster boy for CorpEd's model of segregated urban reform schools, Terry Grier. With his systemwide No Excuses model in place in Houston, Grier has made life so miserable for teachers and students alike that it
Happy Halloween Ken Derstine PA Education Crisis Highlights
And this is just Philadelphia, scary stuff, I'm spookedPennsylvania Education Crisis Highlights - October 29th, 2013Pennsylvania Education Crisis Highlights is available online at http://www.defendpubliceducation.net/Blue text is a link to the full article.**************** Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools | Save our Schools NJMonday
10-29-13 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: The Charlotte Danielson Who Is Getting Rich on the Misuse of Her Intellectual PropertyCharlotte Danielson has built a fence between herself and the misuse of her teacher evaluation scholarship. I call it scholarship rather than research because there is little hard evidence that her system works to improve teaching. Even so, CorpEd has paid the Danielson Group millions to use he