Skip to main contentRemainders: Parents, teachers, Michiganders respond to TDRs
By | February 28, 2012, 1:20am UTC - A math teacher argues that the UFT’s Teacher Data Report ad had a bad choice of graphic. (JD2718)
- A parent describes the roller coaster of learning her child’s top-flight teachers scored low. (New Yorker)
- A Michigan teacher looks at New York and sees value-added troubles ahead at home. (1:1 Classroom)
- A critic of value-added metrics hopes the city release is a turning point for the model. (Gary Rubinstein)
- Reflecting on his value-added score, a teacher remembers he is in the classroom to stay. (Jose Vilson)
- Teachers and commentators from around the country weigh in on the city’s data release. (Atlantic)
- Analysis shows that incorporating error margins would change many teachers’ ratings. (Shanker Blog)
- Kevin Carey: Any teacher evaluation that offers useful results will have a margin of error. (Quick and Ed)
- An economist says using the same tests to evaluate teachers and students is unsound. (U of C Mag)
- D.C.’s IMPACT system had little correlation between value-added and principal scores. (Gary Rubinstein)
- A principal boils down his opposition to releasing teacher ratings to a single argument. (Practical Theory)
- On an academic teacher effectiveness talk that was overshadowed by the data dump. (Ed in the Apple)
- Researchers have found that mothers speak less frequently to daughters about math. (Motherlode)
- Some elected officials are opposing the city’s plan to “turn around” Flushing High School. (Capital NY)
- Unpacking the standards that precede new tests that precede new evaluations. (Ed News Colorado)
- Will Johnson: My students like “Of Mice and Men” because they like the hard truth. (GS Community)
- The fourth part in a series in which Arne Duncan and an alien talk school reform. (Mr. Foteah)
- A New York legislator wants the new federal education law to require science testing. (Politics K-12)
- Ed Sec Arne Duncan aced a performance assessment during the NBA’s celebrity game. (Mediabistro)