Teacher Effectiveness

Empower Effective Teachers -- Get Out of Our Way!

Larry Strauss | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Public Education System, Empowering Teachers, Teacher Empowerment, Teacher Responsibility, Education System, Effective Teaching, Fixing Education System, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Accountability, Education News

We cannot begin to fix our education system until we get everyone in power to recognize the falseness of the military-corporate-education analogy, until we accept the absolute stupidity of executive-ruled schools.

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Publishing Teacher Effectiveness Rankings Draws More Criticism

| Louis Freedberg | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Teacher Data Reports, No Child Left Behind, New York Teacher Ratings, Teacher Rankings, Value Added Teacher Evaluation, Public Teacher Ratings, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Video, Education, Dennis Walcott, Value Added Assessment, Teacher Effectiveness, Value Added Teachers, New York Times, Value Added, Teachers, Teacher Ratings, Measures of Effective Teaching, Education News

This story comes to us courtesy of California's EdSource Extra. The release last month of "value-added" rankings of New York City teachers based on...

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Killing Kindergarten

Amanda Moreno, Ph.D. | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Standardized Testing, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Children in Education, Kindergarten, Education News

All around this country, families are trying to figure out why their small children already dread going to a place that was supposed to serve as a gentle transition to formal learning.

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The Rational Middle

Ama Nyamekye | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Good Teaching, Teacher Evaluations, New Teacher Evaluations, Value Added Teacher Evaluation, Lausd, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Assessment, Los Angeles News

Our national debate over evaluation lacks the courage and nuance of the real-life conversations I have with hardworking, rational teachers. Instead, the debate is dominated by polarizing sound bites that inspire fear, not rational discourse.

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How New York City’s Value-Added Model Compares To What Other Districts, States Are Doing

| Sarah Butrymowicz and Sarah Garland | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: New York City Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, New York Teacher Ratings, Value-Added Models, Hechinger Report, Value-Added Analysis, Value-Added Teacher Ratings, New York Schools, Teacher Ratings, New York, Video, Education News

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. New York City schools erupted in controversy last week when the school district released i...

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Teacher War Rages in NYC: Take an Olive Branch From Early Ed

Susan Ochshorn | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: NYC Teachers, Teacher Data Reports, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Education, New York News

The NYC Department of Education recently lifted an embargo on the publication of Teacher Data Reports, leaving a significant slice of its educator corps to the wolves.

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The "Teacher Effectiveness Gap" Was Just a Myth: 3 Implications

Michael J. Petrilli | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Esea, Teacher Ratings, Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Education News

We have a lot of problems in K-12 education to address. Let's be grateful that we can take "closing the teacher effectiveness gap" off our to-do list.

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New Teacher Evaluation Systems In Tennessee Have Rough Road Ahead

| Sarah Garland | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: The Hechinger Report, Tennessee Schools, Video, Teacher Evaluations, Teacher Effectiveness, Memphis Schools, Hechinger Report, Tennessee Teacher Evaluations, Teachers, Tennessee Teachers, Lester Pre-K-8 School, Grading Teachers, Education News

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. It is the first in a series in a collaboration between The Hechinger Report and Memphis Comme...

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New GOP Education Bills Unlikely To Go Far

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Education News, Video, Education, Education Policy, No Child Left Behind, Teacher Effectiveness, School Funding, Education Politics, 112th Congress, John Kline, School Choice, George Miller, Federal Government Education, House Republicans, Education News

Just in time for the law's 10th anniversary this past Sunday, House Republicans led by Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.) have released draft legislation for r...

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Should Teacher Effectiveness Measurements Adjust For Poverty?

| Sarah Garland | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Child Poverty, Teacher Evaluations, Video, School Poverty, Teacher Grading, Student Poverty, Value-Added Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Value-Added Analysis, Teachers, Teacher Ratings, Teacher Grades, Value-Added Teacher Evaluation, Education News

This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. In Washington, D.C., one of the first places in the country to use value-added teacher r...

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Former Ed Sec Margaret Spellings: It's Not 'Us Versus Them" In Teacher Reform

Margaret Spellings | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Teacher Reform, Teacher Evaluations, Education Reform, Secretary of Education, Teacher Compensation, Teacher Effectiveness, Margaret Spellings, Education News

I'll say it again -- this can't be "us" versus "them." The most important "them" in education reform is the students, and it must be all of us for all of them.

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Global Education Challenge Offers $250,000 For Ideas To Fix Schools

Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Education Reform Ideas, Teacher Effectiveness, Hmh, Education Family Involvement, Education Innovation, Education Ideas, Student Learning, Education Reform, Teacher-Resources, Houghtin Mifflin Harcourt, Good News, Global Education Challenge, Education News

Everyone has an opinion about what's wrong with the education system. Now, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is calling on you to provide the solutions. From...

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The L.A. Times Stands Behind Incorrect Teacher Ratings

Kevin Welner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Angeles Unified School District, Teacher Rankings, Los Angeles, Education Research, Education, Ethics in Journalism, Teacher Effectiveness, Los Angeles Times, Value-Added-Models, Teachers, Teacher Ratings, National Education Policy Center, Value-Added, Education News

The L.A. Times has not been simply reporting on teacher evaluations or ratings. It has been creating them and publicizing them.

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Rhee-form or Reinvention?

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Online Learning, Education Reform, Digital Learning, Teacher Effectiveness, Education News

Fix or replace? The answer is both. The U.S. is rapidly falling behind the rest of the industrial world. We need to work inside and outside the system. We need rapid reform and reinvention.

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Teacher Pay: A Smarter Investment for the New Year

Elizabeth Hampton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teacher Pay, Banks, Education Policy, Teacher Effectiveness, NYC Schools, Education News

I am appalled that such deplorable inequity can coexist in New York, a city that shares everything from its name to its school system.

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How Much Is A Good Teacher Worth? Report Says $400,000 A Year

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality, Matthew Di Carlo, Eric Hanushek, Teacher Evaluation, Good Teachers, Nber, Teachers, Nber Report, Site:www.huffingtonpost.com 2010 Nber Teacher Evaluation Findings, Hanushek, Teacher Effectiveness, Good Teacher Qualities, Education News

How much is a good teacher worth? Some would say they're priceless, but recent findings in the National Bureau of Economic Research's The Economic Val...

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How Do You Find An Effective Teacher? Ask A Kid

AP | DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates Foundation, Bill-Gates-Education, Teacher Ratings, Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Education News

SEATTLE — Adults may be a little surprised by some of the preliminary findings of new research on what makes a great teacher. How do you find t...

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NYC Set To Release Controversial Teacher Effectiveness Rankings

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York City Department of Education, Teacher Rankings, Education Reform, Teacher Ratings, Teacher Effectiveness, Education News

UPDATE: According to the New York City Department of Education, the planned release of the reports is in response to Freedom of Information Law (FOIL)...

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Why the Controversy Over High-Stakes Testing and Teacher Evals Matters

Susan Kaiser Greenland | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Angeles Unified School District, Susan Kaiser Greenland, Lausd, Teacher Effectiveness, School Reform, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles News, Teachers Union, Teacher Rankings, Value-Added, High-Stakes Testing, Los Angeles News

Arne Duncan tied California's failure to secure $700 million in federal Race to the Top funding in part to the fact that LAUSD does not use standardized test scores as a factor in teacher review and evaluation.

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Value Added is No Magic: Assessing Teacher Effectiveness

John Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: School Reform, Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles Times, Teacher Rankings, Value Added, Teacher Effectiveness, Lausd, Los Angeles News

I worry about a flood of unintended consequences if the Los Angeles Times moves forward with its plans to publish the teacher effectiveness rankings of 6,000 elementary school teachers.

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Education News: Themes from the week of August 15, 2010 - College readiness, teacher effectiveness and community development

Susan Sawyers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Learning Council, Paul Tough, Promise Neighborhoods, Harlem Children's Zone, High School Graduation, Geoffrey Canada, High School Dropouts, Schott-Foundation-for-Public-Education, Education, Teacher Effectiveness, College Readiness, Schools, Politics News

A round-up of the week's education stories brought to you by The Hechinger Report....

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