Monday, August 30, 2010

Lake Wobegon vs. Gold stars

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From the LA Times story about the most effective teachers in their value-added analysis ( here ): "No one is ever really singled out, n...
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Let's give them something to talk about...

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(Thanks to my friend who lives in LA and keeps pointing out interesting follow-up articles to me.) First, the LA Times extended the value ad...
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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Fortune favors the bold (Or, the best defense is a good offense)

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So, Randi Weingarten (president of the American Federation of Teachers) thinks parents should have access to individual teacher's perfor...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Value added

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This is a fascinating article -- I recommend reading it. Go ahead, I'll wait. To sum up, the LA Times took data from the Los Angeles U...
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Monday, August 16, 2010

Amazing Schools

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Via Practical Theory , who is principal of the Science Leadership Academy, one of the amazing schools, the Ladies Home Journal put together...
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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Singapore Math

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I've come across the term Singapore Math in a few different contexts in the last few days: Context one: homeschooling mom describing he...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Replacing school with the Khan Academy?

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Have y'all heard of the Khan Academy ? It seems to be one man, Salman Khan, trying to provide a basic math, science, and finance educat...
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