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February 12, 2011

Betsy Angert: Those Who Can Teach; Life Lessons Learned

I wonder. In the world of teacher evaluation might we examine our beliefs more closely. Could we not learn from a bit of real life reflection. Let us not so quickly endorse the data that proves what we came to believe in childhood.  Read Full Post >

February 09, 2011

Are Teachers in Training Good Enough for Special Ed.?

Groups advocating for children with disabilities are among those fuming over a Congressional move to reverse a court ruling preventing interns and teachers in training from being labeled highly qualified.  Read Full Post >

January 28, 2011

Health Care Costs and Educational Productivity

Atul Gawande's latest New Yorker article on efforts to rein in health care costs by better serving the highest-cost/highest-need patients is great reading. But this paragraph near the end particularly jumped out at me: Yet the stakes in health-care hot-spotting are enormous, and go far beyond heal...  Read Full Post >

January 10, 2011

An Idea with Merit?

Tom Vander Ark's recent post about the idea of using "merit badges" to create a more customized educational experience is well-worth checking out. Vander Ark is focusing on K-12 education, but the needs in higher education seem even greater, given the diversity of needs and skill levels with which p...  Read Full Post >

December 27, 2010

British Teachers' Achievement Data Use Seen Lacking

Great Britain, like the United States, is in the middle of a major push to use student achievement data to improve instruction and school policy. And, like us, the implementation is still a bit hit or miss, in part because teachers find their classroom data more accurate and useful.  Read Full Post >

December 21, 2010

Where are the Cool YA and Chick Lit Teachers?

Alexander Russo asks: "Where are the Best Novels About Education?" and gets some pretty solid answers. I'm surprised, though, that no one mentioned youth classics like These Happy Golden Years, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, or Jo's Boys. To be sure, these books are for teenage girls, rathe...  Read Full Post >

November 08, 2010

Teacher Quality and Humility in K-12 and Pre-K

My colleague the Eduwonk has taken to referring to Fordham's Mike Petrilli as "Chicken Little," and I think that there's more than a bit of that in Petrilli's recent post worrying that reform-y types are transforming themselves into the compliance police. That said, I do think Petrilli hits on som...  Read Full Post >

October 28, 2010

Trick or Treat, Smell My High-Quality Pre-k Instruction

I've been writing a lot* lately about instructional quality, particularly about new models with promise to help us both better measure and also improve the quality of instruction in early childhood settings. But I thought it might be helpful--and more engaging--if I actually showed you what I'm talk...  Read Full Post >

October 21, 2010

An Evolving Debate on Pre-K Quality?

Over the past 10 years, the universal pre-kindergarten movement has made tremendous strides: Annual state spending has grown at a roughly 10% annual rate since 2001, roughly doubling to some $5 billion today. The number of children served in state pre-k has nearly doubled as well: from less than 700...  Read Full Post >

October 18, 2010

This post brought to you by the letter K: Kindergarten cut-offs, Kaya Henderson, and Tom Kane and others at CAP

Kindergarten Cutoffs and Transitional Kindergarten in California : I'm not all that psyched about California's recent decision to move up the cut-off date for kindergarten entry. Given that their December 2 date was the latest in the country, moving it up might make sense. But available evidence su...  Read Full Post >

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