Monday, February 17, 2014

2-17-14 V.A.M.: Value Added Measure

V.A.M.: Value Added Measure:









Season 2, Episode 6 in the Twilight Zone of Educational Deformity: "The Eye of the Beholder"!
Common-Core Reformers Instruct a Teacher on How to Implement the New Learning Standards"Where is this place, and when is it? What kind of world where ugliness is the norm and beauty the deviation from that norm? You want an answer? The answer is, it doesn't make any difference. Because the old saying happens to be true. Beauty *is* in the eye of the beholder, in this year or a hundred years




2-16-14 V.A.M.: Value Added Measure
V.A.M.: Value Added Measure: What Does P.B.S. Really Stand For: The Public Broaccasting Service or Pension B.S.?by Adam Bergstein / 4h 2-15-14 V.A.M.: Value Added MeasureV.A.M.: Value Added Measure: Humpty Dumpty Sat On a Wall (Courtesy of a Suburban Mother Goose)Below is an excerpt from one of two poems, referencing Greek mythology on a high-school PARCC Common-Core test (http://www.parcconline.