Sunday, February 18, 2018

Arming Educators: A Bad, Smelly Idea That Won't Go Away

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NOTE: I originally published this post when the calls to arm educators began after Sandy Hook. It seems with every school shooting, the knee...
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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