The Pursuit Of The Magic Education Metric
To address the nation’s struggling economy, the Obama administration has announced a bold proposal to require states to provide more useful data about the career success of business and financial executives who graduate from the nation’s colleges and universities with degrees in finance, accounting, and business administration. Armed with this data, the administration plans to use tens of millions
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4/23/2014 – Parental Advice To Education Policy Makers
April 23, 2014 Subscribe THIS WEEK: English Learning Neglected … Bullying Effects Last … Most Teachers Not “Engaged” … TFA Takes Teachers’ Jobs … Public Schools Out-Perform Voucher Schools TOP STORY Parental Advice To Education Policy Makers By Jeff Bryant “A recent spate of new research studies have revealed current education policies … as being dangerously misaligned with parenting and the mu
Parental Advice To Education Policy Makers
For most children, their first teacher is a parent or primary caregiver. And most teachers will tell you that parent behaviors in the home affect student learning in schools. So it would make sense to make sure education policy isn’t strongly at odds with what we know about good parenting. However a recent spate of new research studies have revealed current education policies – particularly high-s
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4/16/2014 – Education Reform’s Biggest Bust
April 16, 2014 Subscribe THIS WEEK: Reform Harms Civic Engagement … Public School Advantage … Digital Divide In Schools … Teens Can’t Find Work … More College Students Battle Hunger TOP STORY Are Teacher Evaluations Education ‘Reform’s’ Biggest Bust? By Jeff Bryant “Just this week, a key underpinning to the whole teacher evaluation program pushed by the Obama administration was cast into doubt
Are Teacher Evaluations Education ‘Reform’s’ Biggest Bust?
Would you like your job performance judged by a five-year-old? That’s a relevant question for public school teachers in Hawaii, where the state’s new teacher evaluation system attributes ten percent of their job performance rating on what children as young as 5 years old think. Although ten percent may not seem like a whole lot, in a metric based evaluation system where harsh judgments of “effecti
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4/10/2014 – America’s Biggest Failures
April 10, 2014 Subscribe THIS WEEK: Poverty Saps Instructional Time … Why Let Kids Make Rules … Chicago Charter Schools Are No Better … Do E-Books Harm Reading Comprehension … For-Profit College Capture Washington, DC TOP STORY Testing Season Reveals America’s Biggest Failures By Jeff Bryant “It’s testing season in America, and regardless of how the students do, it’s clear who is already flunki
Test Season Reveals America’s Biggest Failures
It’s testing season in America, and regardless of how the students do, it’s clear who is already flunking the exams. Last week in New York, new standardized tests began rolling out across the state, and tens of thousands of families said “no dice.” According to local news sources, over 33,000 students skipped the tests – a figure “that will probably rise.” At one Brooklyn school, so many parents o