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Showing posts with label Value Added. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Value Added. Show all posts
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Data Driven Nonsense from Harvard and the Gates Foundation

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A new Gates-funded Harvard study has found that Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) teachers vary substantially in quality (mo...
Monday, October 22, 2012

LAUSD Lays Down Hammer on Evaluations

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Image from Flickr by r8r Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has filed a declaration of impasse, according to the Daily News ...
Sunday, September 16, 2012

Chicago Teachers, Just Say No

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The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) are were very near a deal by the end of last week. Last minute negotiat...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Giant CTA Sellout: Student Test Scores Could Be Used In Teacher Evaluations

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Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons Assembly Bill 5, which will revamp how teacher evaluations are done in California, has been revived th...
Monday, August 13, 2012

Chicago Teacher Strike Looming?

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Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons Students begin classes Monday at the roughly one-third of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) that are on a ye...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Another UTLA Sellout—Evaluations Can Include Test Scores

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Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons The United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) recently agreed with the Los Angeles Unified School District...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

VAM Bashing From the Right

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Jay Mathews, the conservative foil to Valerie Strauss at the Washington Post, admits he likes Value Added Measures (VAM) in theory, but...
Friday, March 9, 2012

VAM, Blam, Thank You Ma’am

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Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons In a rare moment of lucidity, the New York Times published a piece this week pointing out how even the ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Teachers Offer the Wealthy an Escape from Poverty

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The following is from Anthony Cody ’s excellent critique of the education portion of Obama’s state of the union speech . In a nutshell, ...