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Data Driven Sanity
Diane Ravitch has some more words of sanity on Data Driven policy making at the Bridging Differences blog. Click the link for the entire post; here is an excerpt: This approach rests squarely on the high-stakes use of testing. One … Continue reading
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Cherry Pick’n, Or When Scott Milfred Does Data Driven Policy
Scott Milfred’s column in the Sunday May 17, 2009 Wisconsin State Journal is a textbook example of the kind of foolishness people indulge in when they are dazzled by data that seems to support their favored policies. Mr. Milfred likes … Continue reading
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What Is Wrong With Data Driven Accountability — 17 Paragraphs, 4 Students (at most)
Some good news on the most recent WKCE scores from Nuestro Mundo, as covered in a 17 paragraph Capitol Times story. Good news, which like much achievement data is of limited use. The headline trumpets “Promising” gains and the big … Continue reading
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The Teacher Voice in Data-Driven Accountability
From Randi Weingarten (President of the United Federation of Teachers, NY), via EdWonk. Excerpt: We hear a lot these days about what I call “3-D reform,”—data-driven decision making and about using tests to improve teaching and learning. Sadly, in this … Continue reading
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How Many Strikes? or Whither Accountability? #2
The Isotopes – “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” (click to listen or download) A recent post — Who cuts the barber’s hair? or Whither “accountability”? — centered on some of the failings of the new Wisconsin “Accountability” system designed … Continue reading
Who cuts the barber’s hair? or Whither “accountability”?
Professor Longhair, “Bald Head” (click to listen or download). Educational “accountability” is in the news and on the agenda again this week. It seems it is always in the news and on the agenda these days. I have many problems … Continue reading
Expeditionary Learning Charter for Toki?
The Replacements – “I Don’t Know” (click to listen or download). The biggest item on the Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education committee agendas this week is the “Expeditionary Learning Model at Toki Middle School and Timeline” before the … Continue reading
Seats at the Table
Jimmy Cliff , “Sitting In Limbo” (click to listen or download). The big item at the Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education meeting/retreat/workshop last night was the process for replacing the collective bargaining agreement with an employee hand book … Continue reading
Fact Checking, Spin, Media, Money and Education
Television – “Prove It” (click to listen or download) Three stories I read today got me thinking about the relationship between media companies and education. The first, on the Huffington Post included this revelation from Politco’s Dylan Byers: Newsweek did … Continue reading
ALEC and Bill Gates, the Mask Comes Off
The Cramps, “What’s Behind the Mask” (click to listen or download) This morning a friend tweeted me a grant listing from the Bill and Linda Gates Foundation to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Gates is giving ALEC $375,000 [T]o … Continue reading
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