School Tech Connect: Multiple Measures

School Tech Connect: Multiple Measures:

Multiple Measures

by noreply@blogger.com (Tim)

I've seen some Twitter traffic lately on multiple measures. Duncan is always blathering on about multiple measures, and how he's in favor of them. The trouble is that multiple measures is an empty phrase. You can be in favor of multiple measures but if at the end of the day your policies increase the importance of multiple choicetests, then it doesn't matter how many times you say multiple measures on camera.

After a few years of RTTT, we'll all see that multiple measures turned out to mean multiple multiple-choice teststhroughout the school year. Although apparently these tests are going to be online, at Pearsonville or whatever website. Because it's so easy to get entire grade levels into the computer lab.

Obama Says He Owes Everything To Education (VIDEO):

Obama Says He Owes Everything To Education (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post Laura Hibbard First Posted: 11/23/11 03:29 PM ET Updated: 11/23/11 03:35 PM ET

If you could sit down for dinner with the President of the United States, what would you ask him?

Retired school teacher Juanita Martinez of Brighton, Colo. knew. She was one among three others -- another retired teacher, an Army veteran and a small business owner -- who had dinner with President Barack Obama last month.

"My concern is, of course, public education," Martinez told Obama. "I subbed last year for a class and there were like 33 students and three didn't even have desks. So, it's gotten really rough."

It wasn't a clear question, per se, and so the President didn't really have a clear answer, but he did

Oliver Sicat. The Closer. « Fred Klonsky

Oliver Sicat. The Closer. « Fred Klonsky:

Oliver Sicat. The Closer.

by Fred Klonsky

Oliver Sicat is 32 years old.

He has been a teacher and a principal.

This is one of the screwy things that has occurred in recent years. Some guy gets his teaching certification. He teaches in a classroom for a couple of years. He doesn’t really like it. He goes back and gets his Type 75 administrative certification and becomes a principal. To an ever increasing degree, this is what the principal pool

Rick Scott Silent on Potential Budget Shortfall for Florida’s A-Plus Money | Scathing Purple Musings

Rick Scott Silent on Potential Budget Shortfall for Florida’s A-Plus Money | Scathing Purple Musings:

Rick Scott Silent on Potential Budget Shortfall for Florida’s A-Plus Money

by Bob Sikes

It’s turning out to be a pretty bad day for Florida’s education reformers. Now comes word that the merit pay program that Florida has now may have a budget shortfall and that there’s a delay in awarding school grades.

“With high schools receiving their grades in late December and not within a time frame that allows schools and districts to utilize the appropriate appeals process, we simply cannot provide funding to one group of schools and not the others,” Robinson said in a statement.

Since the one-month appeal period must also be factored in, the schedule for

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