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Approaching Education Data the Nate Silver Way
My girlfriend’s very hospitable and generous family gave me some great gifts for the holidays when I stayed with them in upstate New York. As I rocked my new Teach For America T-shirt in the Rochester...
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The Problem with Outcome-Oriented Evaluations
Imagine I observe two poker players playing two tournaments each. During their first tournaments, Player A makes $1200 and Player B loses $800. During her second tournament, Player A pockets another...
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Informed Student Advocates Pursue Reforms that, Unlike Vergara v. California,...
Judge Rolf Treu just ruled in favor of Students Matter in Vergara v. California, deeming teacher permanent status (commonly called “tenure”), due process protections for teachers with permanent status,...
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StudentsFirst Vice President Eric Lerum and I Debate Accountability Measures...
After my blog post on the problem with outcome-oriented teacher evaluations and school accountability measures, StudentsFirst Vice President Eric Lerum and I exchanged a few tweets about student...
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Eric Lerum and I Debate Teacher Evaluation and the Role of Anti-Poverty Work...
StudentsFirst Vice President Eric Lerum and I recently began debating the use of standardized test scores in high stakes decision-making. I argued in a recent blog post that we should instead evaluate...
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Cooks, Chefs, and Teachers: A Long-Form Debate on Evaluation (Part 3a)
StudentsFirst Vice President Eric Lerum and I have been debating teacher evaluation approaches since my blog post about why evaluating teachers based on student test scores is misguided and...
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Is VAM a Sham? Depends on the Question You’re Asking.
“Does data source X provide useful information?” and “Should data source X be used for purpose Y?” are two very different questions. Unfortunately, conflation of these questions by education...
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