On DCPS education budgets. Trying to do our jobs with nothing. @valeriestrauss @dcpublicschools
I teach in Ward 8. A clerical error lead to the District rescinding our budget until it’s sorted out. So, as of right now, one of the neediest schools in the entire District is operating with no money. And when I mean no money, I mean nothing, nada, zilch, zippo, nothing. We paid for the […]
Market-Driven Researchers Find that Reality Is Messy III
This is the third in a series of critiques of Matt DiCarlo’s “The Year in Research on Market-Based Education Reforms: 2013.” The preceding posts, here and here, summarized research on some obvious problems with value-added evaluations that should have been foreseen. This post addresses pitfalls that were discovered after value-added systems were implemented. The preceding […]
Ending Poverty Requires Community, Not War
Ending Poverty Requires Community, Not War. via Ending Poverty Requires Community, Not War.
1-8-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: A Fantastic Summative Comment on My Data Mining PostOn January 3, 2014, I posted a piece entitled Beware of Data Sharing Cheerleaders Offering Webinars. On January 5, Diane Ravitch featured the post on her blog due to the post’s active commentary on both sides of the issue, including that of an inBloom representative. It is January 7, and the comments are still live (167 comments