Saturday, December 9, 2017

Expanding Education Leadership Innovation and Imagination by Valuing Art and Literature

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I am going say something direct to those think the arts, literature, and even philosophy are frivolous and "impractical" for 21st...
Monday, November 13, 2017

Why Earn a Doctoral Degree When NC Legislature Does Away with Doctoral Pay?

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I’ve asked myself the question about why would I get a doctoral degree as an educator when our NC Legislature voted last summer to end pay ...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

Building a Better Teacher Through VAMs? Not So Fast According to Mark Paige's Book

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As a part of my research explorations, I stumbled across a relatively new book published in 2016 about the problems with using value-added m...

Using VAMs to Determine Teacher Effectiveness: Turning Schools into Test Result Production Factories

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"But VAMs have fatal shortcomings. The chief complaint: they are statistically flawed. VAMs are unreliable, producing a wide range of ...
Friday, November 10, 2017

What Happens When Schools and School Districts Use VAMs to Make Decisions about Teachers?

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Many school administrators are using value-added measures in making decisions about teachers as if these statistical measures represent the ...
Friday, October 27, 2017

In Education, What's Wrong with the "It's-the-Best-We've Got Rationale?"

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Over the years, as the waves of new reform efforts, federal policy initiatives, and latest educational fads have ebbed and flowed, all of th...
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Friday, October 13, 2017

Where Have I Been and Why I've Not Been Blogging

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I realize my blogposts have dropped off precipitously lately, but there is a simple explanation: I've been working on my doctoral disser...