Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here):
Nation’s First Religious Charter School Could Be Coming to Oklahoma is from The NY Times.
The game looks fun but, more importantly, the process The Times uses for game development was pretty intriguing. I wish school districts and schools would use a similar process before demanding we teachers implement new projects or curriculum https://t.co/R8MZXQqHDf
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) April 11, 2023
Important work out of our amazing postdoc @jeremylsinger. It’s not just that some schools serve more low income kids. Some schools serve more kids in deep poverty. Important implications for accountability and funding. https://t.co/N5zpOKp2ID
— EPIC (@EPICedpolicy) April 11, 2023
I’m adding this next tweet to The Best Resources For Learning About Effective Student & Teacher Assessments:
Today’s post looks at the new (and older) evidence on the effect of teacher evaluation reform, what happened, and whether the whole thing might be salvaged. https://t.co/z9iAwOxoCx
— Albert Shanker Institute (@shankerinst) April 12, 2023
As we see more & more research & articles about failure of teacher evaluation systems, I wonder if an underestimated cause 4 the hostility so many of us teachers have for these systems can be traced to the irresponsible public reporting by the LA Times of tchr VAM scores in 2010?
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) April 13, 2023
Maybe enrollment into teacher credential programs is going up:
{New from me} According to data that came out late last year, the number of people enrolled in teacher preparation programs has risen more than 30% since the lows of 2016-17: https://t.co/CgPmx1zDMX
— Chad Aldeman (@ChadAldeman) April 13, 2023
Or maybe it’s not not really going up a lot:
I suspect an under-rated reason why teacher evaluation disappointed is that the decline of people who wanted to be teachers limited schools’ willingness to attach stakes to eval ratings — or even identify teachers as low performing in the first place.https://t.co/e5gDZncuJf
— Matt Barnum (@matt_barnum) April 14, 2023
LAUSD pitched students an expensive experiment to get higher grades. Most turned it down is from The LA Times.
The teacher shortage has consequences. The teacher in FL that hosted fight clubs was only 23 years old. Also wondering about the experience level of the teachers who stood by while a 5 year old lay on the ground unconscious until he died because they thought he was playing dead. https://t.co/FLomCGr1SZ
— Dr. Tracy Edwards (@tracyrenee70) April 12, 2023
A Well of Conservative Support for Public Schools in Rural Texas is from The NY Times.
I’m adding this tweet to The Best Articles About New Report Saying Public Schools Lost A Million Students During Pandemic:
— Tom Dee (@ProfTDee) April 15, 2023
The American school bus of the future will still have wheels that go round and round. But if the transition from fossil fuels continues, the engine won’t go vroom, vroom, vroom. It won’t make much noise at all, b/c it will be electric.
For free @climate: https://t.co/L7foxwyA7o
— Zahra Hirji (@Zhirji28) April 13, 2023
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