VAM (value-added modeling)

Houston: Why HISD Should Have the Best Teachers in the Nation By Now

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7December 3, 2020December 4, 2020

December 3, 2020December 4, 2020039

Audrey Amrein Beardsley writes here about Houston’s experience with value-added evaluation of its teachers. The Houston Independent School District (HISD) contracted with William Sanders’...

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DFER Names Its Candidates for Secretary of Education

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7November 6, 2020November 26, 2020

November 6, 2020November 26, 2020037

Chalkbeat reports that the privatizers at “Democrats” for Education Reform have identified their candidates for Biden’s Secretary of Education. They are three big-city superintendents who...

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Laura Chapman: Can Teachers Be Measured by the Same Methods Used for Cows?

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7October 18, 2020November 26, 2020

October 18, 2020November 26, 2020034

Our wonderful reader Laura Chapman reports here on the origins of the laws that purport to measure teacher quality by the test scores of their...

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Richard Phelps Reviews Michelle Rhee’s “Reforms,” Ten Years Later, Part 1

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 13, 2020November 26, 2020

September 13, 2020November 26, 2020053

A decade ago, Richard Phelps was assessment director of the District of Columbia Public Schools. His time in that position coincided with the last ten...

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Jan Resseger: High-Stakes Standardized Testing Brings a Punitive Regime

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7June 23, 2020November 26, 2020

June 23, 2020November 26, 2020031

Jan Resseger read Valerie Strauss’s hopeful column about a possible end to America’s obsession with standardized testing, and wrote about how this testing has warped...

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Insult of the Day in the Wall Street Journal

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7June 9, 2020November 26, 2020

June 9, 2020November 26, 2020037

The Wall Street Journal, which has a teacher-bashing, union-hating pro-privatization editorial board, published an editorial warning about the dangers of policing the police. The editorial...

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File This in the Department of “Some People Never Learn”

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7February 29, 2020November 26, 2020

February 29, 2020November 26, 2020032

Say this for Eric Hanushek: He never gives up on his obsession with paying teachers more if their students get higher test scores. Arne Duncan...

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Audrey Amrein Beardsley: How Much Do Teachers Affect the Increase in Their Students’ Height?

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7December 18, 2019November 26, 2020

December 18, 2019November 26, 2020032

Audrey Amrein Beardsley is one of the leading experts in the nation in the field of value-added assessment and also one of the nation’s leading...

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Research: Teacher Effects on Student Height: A Cautionary Tale

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7November 27, 2019November 26, 2020

November 27, 2019November 26, 2020028

WASHINGTON — Elementary- and middle-school teachers who help raise their students’ standardized-test scores seem to have a wide-ranging, lasting positive effect on those students’ lives...

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Mercedes Schneider: After Multiple Failures, Why Doesn’t the Gates Foundation Leave K-12 Schools Alone?

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7November 24, 2019November 26, 2020

November 24, 2019November 26, 2020030

Mercedes Schneider reviews the Gates Foundation’s long and costly list of failed interventions into K-12 schools and points out, quoting the words of the Foundation,...

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