All Posts Tagged: 'Value Added Measures'


Valuing Good Teaching

February 7th, 2010 | Category: Teacher Quality

Research has shown time and again that experience matters in good teaching. What it hasn’t shown is that every experience matters equally. In fact, a teacher’s first few years on the job are by far the most important, and it has been demonstrated repeatedly that the vast majority of teaching improvement comes in the first [...]

House Budget Makes Value-Added Harder

June 17th, 2006 | Category: Accountability

The House Appropriations committee passed a version of the FY 2007 federal education budget earlier this week (details here). There weren’t a lot of differences from the budget President Bush submitted earlier this year. But one small change is worth noting.
The administration’s proposal to increase funding for state data systems from $24 million to $54 [...]