This week's COWAbunga award, i.e. comment of the week award, goes to Rachel, who has been commenting here since the very beginning. It turns out that she and I share a ed policy pet peeve:While we're on the subject of "causal connection" I'll bring up one of my pet peeves in the correlation-does-not... Read Full Post >
This week's COWAbunga Award, aka the "comment of the week award," goes to Citizen X, who let loose on Roland Fryer's experiments that pay kids for their test scores:The soul-crushing aspect of Fryer's theoretical framework....is that it lets the curriculum and the teacher and the school entirely off... Read Full Post >
This week's COWAbunga Award goes to DoubleDown, who provided his take on NYC's Progress Reports. Readers outside of New York, listen closely - this system could very well become a model for the nation. Here's an excerpt: You have to feel sorry for the brain trust working on [the Progress Reports]. U... Read Full Post >
This week's COWAbunga Award goes to two comments that explain why medicine and education have followed very different paths when it comes to accountability. The first comment is from eiela, a teacher librarian:I think the reason we don't want to inject the idea that student achievement is based part... Read Full Post >
No, there's no convention commentary here (or else skoolboy would have to shoot himself). This week’s “Comment of the Week Award,” also known as the COWAbunga Award, goes to NYC Educator, for a comment on yesterday’s Coffee Talk question about which big-city school district is the worst-m... Read Full Post >
This week's "Comment of the Week Award" goes to TangoMan for his insightful explanation of why education has followed a different trajectory than medicine in its use of evidence, and what role education schools might play in addressing this problem. I would add that superintendents and administrator... Read Full Post >
This week's "Comment of the Week Award," also known as the COWAbunga Award, goes to Attorney DC, whose understanding of collective action dilemmas cut to the heart of a debate about gender and the workplace:I still disagree [that] it is the responsibility of the parents (husband and wife) to deal wi... Read Full Post >
A few weeks ago, Kent Fischer started a great feature on his Dallas schools blog called "Comment Of the Week Award," also known as "the Golden COW." Starting today and every week thereafter I'll follow his example and give the COWAbunga Award to an insightful, interesting, or funny comment on this s... Read Full Post >
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