Class Struggle Archive: Metro Monday
D.C. expose--one teacher's evaluation
Overall, the evaluator gave the teacher only 2.3 out of a possible 4 points. Goldfarb got only 1 out of 4 points in one section for failing to post or say what the objective of the lesson was--to me unnecessary kid’s stuff for an AP class. He also got only 1 out of 4 points for not catering to multiple learning styles, even though some experts, like Willis D. Hawley of the University of Maryland, call learning style analysis “bunk.”
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Jay Mathews
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November 22, 2009; 10:00 PM ET |
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| Tags: D.C. schools, Dan Goldfarb, IMPACT evaluation program, Jason Kamras, Michelle A. Rhee, multiple learning style, teacher evaluation
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Want to eliminate at-risk kids? Call them something else.
I sympathize with those who may not be comfortable with the latest plan to rid our schools of at-risk kids. Several educators across the country, including Alexandria city schools superintendent Morton Sherman, have decided not to call them that...
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Jay Mathews
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November 15, 2009; 10:00 PM ET |
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| Tags: Alexandria City Schools, achievement gap, at-promise students, at-risk students, political correctness
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Forget about rating teachers---rate schools instead.
Those unfortunate people in the District may worry about the quality of their teachers, and wait anxiously for the results of the school system’s controversial new evaluation of classroom techniques and test score improvement. But those of us in...
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Jay Mathews
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November 8, 2009; 11:00 PM ET |
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| Tags: teacher evaluation
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Perils of rating teachers--Part one, the District
In the last half of the 19th century, many inventors pursued the dream of building an airplane. Duds and crashes were frequent and skeptics numerous. Only a decade before the Wright brothers’ 1903 flight, British physicist and engineer Lord...
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Jay Mathews
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November 1, 2009; 10:00 PM ET |
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Two D.C. high schools get a New York makeover
After days of frantic blogging on the latest D.C. schools crisis and trading speculation with interested readers, I find it refreshing to visit three educators who are making major changes in two of the city’s lowest-performing high schools. Unlike...
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Jay Mathews
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October 25, 2009; 10:00 PM ET |
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Test that makes U.S. look bad may not be so good
Politicians and pundits are using results from the Programme for International Student Assessment|(PISA) tests to say our kids are falling behind the rest of the world, so maybe we should get some PISA practice. Brookings Institution scholar Tom Loveless, a...
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Jay Mathews
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October 19, 2009; 6:00 AM ET |
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