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Analyzing Released NYC Value-Added Data Part 1

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - The New York Times, yesterday, released the value-added data on 18,000 New York City teachers collected between 2007 and 2010. Though teachers are irate and various newspapers, The New York Post, ...

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The Teacher Tea Leaf Reports on SchoolCrock: An Explanation

allthingsedu.blogspot.com - SchoolCrock has published the teacher tea leaf reports using a new tool that was created by interactive journalists at The New Hack Times and WNLIC. The goal of the tool: to make the tea leaves eas...

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The Great Charter School Conspiracy « Wait, What?

jonpelto.wordpress.com - February 24, 2012 jonpelto Achievement First/ConnCAN, Charter Schools, Education, Malloy, Stefan Pryor Achievement First, ConnCAN, Education Reform, Malloy, Stefan Pryor The Hartford Courant headli...

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Universities to be tested to distraction

universityworldnews.com - US schools policy has been all about accountability and measurement. This has led to demoralisation among teachers and a narrowing of what education means. Now higher education is about to be subje...

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World's Oldest Holocaust Museum, in London, Gets New Life

nytimes.com - LONDON — In a sun-drenched room overlooking Russell Square, a visitor’s eye is immediately drawn to a display of cheerful coloring books, a brightly colored board game and photographs of laughing c...

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Breaking News: Mayor Rahm returns to the Democratic Party!

chicagoreader.com - Election day’s coming, so, naturally, I get a mailing from the Democratic Party, telling me who to vote for. Not that I’m going to be heeding their endorsements, even though I’m a lifelong Democrat...

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Scott Walker's Koch Connection Goes Bad

thenation.com - Billionaire campaign donor David Koch has rarely spoken in public about the central role he has played in the election of Scott Walker as governor of Wisconsin, the defense of Walker's embattled go...

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Shameless. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Here is some truth: Every time some bureaucrat, administrator or principal comes up with some hair-brained scheme, they will justify it as being for the kids. In fact, I will go a step further and ...

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Rick Santorum's home-school hokum - Home Schooling

salon.com - Here’s where the fun starts.My son and daughter regard me in grave silence, faces stuffed with processed meat and fried potato product. They field this question themselves fairly often, but they’re...

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BronxNet - On Bronx Media

bronxnet.org - Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. deliver his annual State of the Borough address. The speech was delivered on February 23, 2012 in the beautiful auditorium at Truman High School, in front of...

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Four Philly-area Catholic high schools to stay open

articles.philly.com - But students at St. Hubert Catholic High School for Girls in Holmesburg, Conwell-Egan in Fairless Hills, Monsignor Bonner-Archbishop Prendergast in Drexel Hill, and West Catholic who watched a live...

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Featured at Truthout

wrestlingwithwriting.blogspot.com - Having trouble viewing this email? Click here to view it online. Saturday 25 February 2012Bill Moyers | How Pop Culture Influences Political Expectations Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: "Film historian ...

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Teacher Evaluation in New Haven « JD2718

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Teacher Evaluation in New Haven « JD2718:Teacher Evaluation in New Havenby jd2718New York City’s “teacher improvement plan” will look like New Haven’s? Makes you want to cut through all the fancy l...

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Shameless. « Fred Klonsky

Shameless. « Fred Klonsky:

Shameless.

by Fred Klonsky

Here is some truth: Every time some bureaucrat, administrator or principal comes up with some hair-brained scheme, they will justify it as being for the kids.

In fact, I will go a step further and say that if one of the above says what they are doing is for the kids, lock the

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Teacher Evaluation in New Haven « JD2718

Teacher Evaluation in New Haven « JD2718:

Teacher Evaluation in New Haven

by jd2718

New York City’s “teacher improvement plan” will look like New Haven’s? Makes you want to cut through all the fancy language about validators and speak with real New Haven teachers. Which I did.

I’m from New Haven. My family’s from New Haven. Some of my best friends… Well, I have relatives who teach in and near “the Have” (as no one calls it, but maybe we should). And here’s what I gleaned from two short conversations:

The new evaluation system has made no difference to the majority of teachers. An extra form to fill in, and three

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Reading List: VAM (Value Added Measures) - Sacramento City Teachers Association

Reading List: VAM (Value Added Measures) - Sacramento City Teachers Association:

Reading List: VAM (Value Added Measures)



Formula for deriving a teacher’s value added score in New York City

One of the biggest topics in education lately has been the use of Value added measures also known by the acronym, VAM. In recent days, New York has been roiling in controversy with the release of teacher reports (more at New York Teacher Ratings Released — “At Best Unwise, At Worst Absurd”). The release of teacher “ratings” by the LA Times a year ago led to similar controversy about accuracy, fairness, and whether such ratings are at all appropriate. Many of you may be wondering, what is VAM?

Value added measures involve evaluating teacher performance based on how their students perform on tests. Most often if involves comparing test scores from before, and after a student was with that particular teacher. Many states and large districts are now moving towards basing teacher evaluation on test scores, so that around 40% the students in the country will have a teacher who is being evaluated based in some part on their students’ test scores. Teacher evaluations that include using students test scores are required for the federal Race to the Top (RttT) program, some types of School Improvement Grants for

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