Showing posts with label Education Reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education Reform. Show all posts
Friday, October 16, 2015

Education reform

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Go and read  Atrios' useful perspective on education reform.  A broad movement can have many goals and it can be helpful to acknowledge ...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

A subtle issue with standardized tests

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This is Joseph. Dean Dad has a nice piece on assessment .  A part of it that jumped out was: Johnson’s argument is subtle enough that m...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Has this person ever worked in a large corporation?

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I ask in astonishment because I read things like this : The newest bit of “wisdom” for public education comes to us from Netflix Chief Exe...
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Friday, November 15, 2013

Common Core and the Law of Large Numbers

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Common Core is a big story that needs to be addressed in depth ( Valerie Strauss's column is a good place to start), but a lot of the d...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Just a quick dip of the toe in the water

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One of the interesting pieces that is coming out about some of the high performance charter schools suggests that at least some of their suc...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Paging Mark P

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Mark Thoma posted this today . I think the whole idea of charter schools has some merit as a means of educational experimentation.  But if...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

More thoughts on Education

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A couple more thoughts on the whole education reform movement, both hoisted from comments. First, there was a comment by Stuart Buck : ...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

Felix Salmon's overview of education

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In a long but pithy post , Salmon uses the over-hyped Aspen Festival as a springboard to discuss education reform, starting with this sharpl...
Friday, February 24, 2012

Odd Criterion

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Via Diane Ravitch : But one sentence in the agreement shows what matters most: “Teachers rated ineffective on student performance based on ...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

K12

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This is not surprising : Nearly 60 percent of its students are behind grade level in math. Nearly 50 percent trail in reading. A third do no...
Monday, October 10, 2011

Testing teachers

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It has been a while since we talked about education reform but Arnold Kling has a great perspective : Simple formulas can be “gamed.” That i...
Friday, September 30, 2011

Performance based teaching

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Via Megan McArdle , comes this gem : It would be naïve to assume that the persons subjected to variable pay-for-performance would accept the...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

Open Call

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Consider this an open call for Mark, my co-blogger with a strong interest in education, to give his reactions to this piece on educational ...
Monday, August 8, 2011

My disconnect with Jon Chait

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Let me begin with Jon Chait being one of my favorite writers, a must-read, and a person with whom I agree > 90% of the time. I think tha...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

A return to education as a topic

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This is an interesting perspective from Matt Yglesias about the tensions in the education reform movement: The ambiguous policy upshot of t...
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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Too much silliness, too little time

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I'm in the middle of a busy weekend, so I can't do justice to Brooks recent education column and Jonathan Chait's affectionate ...
Saturday, July 2, 2011

Jonathan Chait -- now to the right of David Brooks on Education

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For those keeping track, Jonathan Chait has now chastised both David Brooks and the National Review's Jim Manzi for being too moderat...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

A big recommendation and a small caveat for "The Test Generation"

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Dana Goldstein has a great piece of education reporting over at the American Prospect . It's balanced and well-informed, though one sec...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Test Scores

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Diane Ravitch has some comments on the evidence that there may have been some alterations of D.C. test score results: What will this revela...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

A nice post on Education Reform

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There is a nice post in the Daily Kos talking about education reform. The whole piece is worth noting but this point seems especially apt: ...