By Anthony Cody. New York principal Carol Burris’ latest post is infuriating. In it, she describes the inaccurate data that the New York state Department of Education has published which fails to show the true number of students attending college. The Department of Ed published the faulty data by district …
By Sarah Lahm. Wham, VAM, here comes a public airing of teacher evaluation data for all Minneapolis Public Schools teachers, just in time for the 2014 election. Sources tell me that Minneapolis’ largest newspaper, the StarTribune, will publish teacher evaluation information, based on SOEI (Standards of Effective …
By John Thompson. Anthony Cody’s The Educator and the Oligarch recalls his 2012 debate with representatives of the Gates Foundation. He summarized the work of education scholar Linda Darling-Hammond, mathematician John Ewing, and the American Statistical Association when explaining why value-added models …
