A friend from the business world responds to my recent post on teacher evaluations in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to describe her company’s personnel assessments:
We rate employees on a 5 point scale with 1 being the best. So, say out of 100 employees, maybe 10 would be a 1. There would be a lot of [...]
All Posts Tagged: 'Tenure'
Superlatives and Scales
NYC Tenure Cont’d
NYC Educator disagrees with my take on the NYC tenure debate, and a previous post in which I cited his recitation of the many transcendently bad teachers with which he’s had the misfortune to work as evidence that the tenure process in New York should be improved.
For the most part, I like NYC Educator’s take on [...]
"Technical" Objections
Over at the UFT, Leo Casey accuses us of various rhetorical sins involves caricatures, straw men, etc, in recent comments about the NYC value-added project. Their grievances lie with the methodology, says Leo, and it’s wrong to say otherwise. Okay, very well. Two questions:
1) What are the basic elements of a UFT-approved methodologically appropriate method [...]
You’re Fired (Not!)
This post by AFTie Ed last week was laugh-out-loud funny but also made a point well worth remembering:
Wait, you mean you can’t just snap your hand and get rid of non union employees you don’t like? Wow!
There are lots of reasons lousy and downright horrid people often don’t get fired, and most of those reasons [...]
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/19/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on college graduation rates and the NCAA Tournament in the Detroit Free Press.
03/19/10 | Linda Perlstein links to Education Sector's "College- and Career-Ready" event.
03/17/10 | Ben Miller's column on graduation rates and NCAA Tournament eligibility is mentioned on The Wall Street Journal's The Daily Fix.
03/17/10 | Kevin Carey's critique of Diane Ravitch's latest book is quoted in Doublethink's Conventional Folly blog.
03/15/10 | Ben Miller pens an op-ed for US News & World Report on using graduation rates to determine NCAA Tournament eligibility.