Now That Education Has Been the "Civil Rights Issue of Our Generation" for a Generation . . .
. . . it's worth asking how's that working out for those duplicitous policy elites who pretend to believe such nonsense. Apparently, much more grit is going to required to grind poor and brown children down into that magical stuff that high test scores are made from. From Kids Count 2014:
Haslam Continues Ed Policy Based on Secrecy, Favoritism, and Dupliicty
Washington County School Board member Jack Leonard speaks Friday outside the district's central office as state Reps. Matthew Hill, Micah Van Huss and Tony Shipley listen. (Nathan Baker/Johnson City Press)Bill Haslam is up for re-election this year, and if Tennesseans can see beyond the ends of the Obama-hating noses, they will send this anti-democratic oligarch back to the corporate offices of P
7-26-14 Schools Matter All Week
Schools Matter: Schools Matter All WeekValue-Added Modeling (VAM) is pseudoscience, but profitable pseudosciences persist"While value-added models are intended estimate teacher effects on student achievement growth, they fail to do so in any accurate or precise way. — Professor Bruce Baker" Back in early April I penned a piece for K12NN on The American Statistical Association's (ASA) pa