A blog for the informed discussion of California's education policy challenges.
The 2010 midterm elections are next Tuesday, November 2nd. As mentioned in the October 8th
Policy Update, there are several key races and initiatives to look out for:
Governor: Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman have differing agendas for solving the various issues and debates in California education. As mentioned in the October 8th blog post, Jerry Brown’s...
Can we talk? As it turns out, we can’t. We can yell, finger point, and mutually disparage, but we are incapable of talking about what matters most in public education: how the resources we have are best allocated to produce the student achievement results we need.
A case in point: Jacob Adams, a...
The L.A. Times publication in August of a value-added analysis of teacher effectiveness, based on student scores on math and ELA tests, has sparked national debate about the ethics of publicly ranking individual teachers. Educators and researchers questioned the usefulness of student scores on standardized tests as teacher effectiveness measures, the merits of teacher performance-pay systems, and whether...
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