Why Naming Names Is Wrong
Even researchers who support the use of value-added assessment for teacher evaluation have warned that it is wrong to name names. Read Full Post >
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September 20, 2011
September 14, 2011
New-School-Year's Reflections
The frustration, sorrow, and down-right fury I feel day after day at the way we are messing things up for ourselves, our children, our grandchildren and, most of all, our great-grandchildren is not good for me. Read Full Post >
August 29, 2011
Remembering Vito Perrone
For me personally, and Vito, too, there's a special poignancy because not only are we in danger of losing what was a growing school reform consensus in the 1980s, but we're at risk of losing all traces of a century-old progressive tradition which pitted efficiency-mavens against democracy-mavens in school reform and all the other strands of New Deal and Fair Deal reform. Read Full Post >
August 26, 2011
What I Did Last Summer, Part One
Like me, Wendy thinks that the media should not print the names of teachers and their "effectiveness ratings." We agreed that The Los Angeles Times was wrong to do so a year ago. She agreed with me that naming names is fraught with inaccuracy and can only demoralize teachers. Read Full Post >
August 26, 2011
Reflections on the March on Washington, July 30, 2011
I know of no other time in our history when thousands of teachers and parents massed on the Mall in Washington to protest misguided federal policies and to demand changes that will truly improve education and help children learn. Read Full Post >
August 26, 2011
What I Did Last Summer, Part Two
Most panelists agreed that there is a yawning gap between the "reform" policies of the moment and the consensus among scholars who have devoted their lives to studying the issues. How to bridge that gap? Read Full Post >
June 21, 2011
Reasons for Hope
Now is a time to speak and act. Now is a time to think about how we will one day be judged. Not by test scores, not by data, but by the consequences of our actions. Read Full Post >
June 21, 2011
Why I Am Marching on July 30
I will be marching with the Save Our Schools coalition of teachers and parents on July 30 in Washington, D.C. I know you will be, too. I hope we are joined by many thousands of concerned citizens who want to save our schools from the bad ideas and bad policies now harming them. Read Full Post >
June 14, 2011
Schools with Power to Adapt to Individual Children
We can't overcome the past until we make radical changes in the way too many Americans are forced to live, as well as in our ways of using school. Read Full Post >
June 14, 2011
On Treating Students & Educators 'Like Rats in a Maze'
Referring to No Child Left Behind, now in effect for nine years, the committee held that there were some school-level effects, "but the measured effects to date tend to be concentrated in elementary grade mathematics, and the effects are small compared to the improvements the nation hopes to achieve." Read Full Post >
