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Chronicle 9.1.10 4:00 AM
This is a story of trains.
A number of summer vacations ago, Anne and I were in Italy. We were on the local coastal train, heading for Genoa. At one stop, Italian police boarded and began asking every passenger who had dark skin for their papers.
by Frederick M. Hess • Sep 1, 2010 at 8:54 am
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It's like a bad joke. You're interviewing candidates for an important education job and ask each about their views on using performance-based metrics to evaluate and potentially remove teachers. Who actually answers the question, much less inspires confidence that they're up to snuff?
The ex-basketball player who says, "We have to elevate the status of the profession. We can't do enough to recognize great teaching. We can't do enough to shine a spotlight on success. And we have to be willing to challenge the status quo together when it's not working."
The union lawyer who says, "I think the issue is, what we're all grappling with, is how you make sure that
With the posting of today’s “The Best…” list on polar bears, there are now five hundred regularly updated and revised “The Best…” lists.
That’s a lot of lists!
You can find them all listed
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Michelle A. Rhee, center, the Washington schools chancellor, fired about 25 teachers partly over poor value-added evaluations.
How good is one teacher compared with another?
Karen Caruso teaches in Los Angeles, where some teacher ratings are made public.
Share your thoughts.
A growing number of school districts have adopted a system called value-added modeling to answer that question, provoking battles from Washington to Los Angeles — with some saying it is an effective method for increasing teacher accountability, and others arguing that it can give an inaccurate picture of teachers’ work.
The system calculates the value teachers add to their students’ achievement, based on changes in test scores from year to year and how the students perform compared with
Protest at Oakland child care centers droppedTuesday, August 31, 2010 MORE EDUCATIONA standoff between parents, community activists and the Oakland Unified School District over the closure of two low-income child care centers has ended with the children being diverted to other programs in the district. Members of the community group By Any Means Necessary had planned to occupy the two North Oakland centers all weekend and open them on Monday, but police evicted them late Friday. By then, parents and district officials and talked further, and though nobody was happy about the closures, most agreed to abide by the new arrangement, representatives of both sides said. The district had planned to shut seven of its 31 early childhood development centers |
Wednesday, September 1st 2010, 4:00 AM
Parents are going to get schooled about bedbugs.
A state law passed this week requires health officials to alert parents if bedbugs are found anywhere on school premises.
"We have an epidemic, and the best tool we have is education tokeep bedbugs from
After administering the Washington Assessment of Student Learning for 12 years, state school districts always knew how students stacked up compared with the previous year's class — or even a class a decade ago.
Seattle Times staff reporters
After administering the Washington Assessment of Student Learning for 12 years, state school districts always knew how students stacked up compared with the previous year's class — or even a class a decade ago.
But now the test that served as the state's report card on K-12 education is gone, replaced by two new tests that are shorter and, in some subject areas, measure different standards. And state officials are unsure how to interpret the results — calling them a mixed bag, from grade to grade and subject to subject
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