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Jejak Panda Terima Kasih Sudah Kunjungin Blog Ini ceme online terbaik I was just reading the latest issue of NEA Today . Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has an article in there titled “Elevating the Teaching Profession.” In it there is much discussion of the evaluation of teachers and its link to student performance. Of course this subject is a core component of the Race to the Top funds that the US Department of Education has made available to states, which is why Secretary Duncan is talking about it. Duncan’s article attempts to put a very positive spin on such a controversial subject. He talks about teachers being treated as professionals, being given more support, and being compensated for their work. He also makes the effort to point out that student performance must not be determined by test scores alone. He writes, “Student growth and gain, not absolute test scores, are what we are most interested in—how much are students improving each year, and what teachers...

Jejak Panda Terima Kasih Sudah Kunjungin Blog Ini ceme online terbaik The other day I forwarded a message to the CWP listserv about the release of the documentary Waiting for Superman , which came out on the 24th. I haven’t seen the movie yet but all the buzz is that it is highly critical of education in the United States. There’s a couple of lengthy articles about the film and about education in general in the September 20 issue of Time . The email I forwarded came to me from a colleague in the Neag School of Education, and it had gone out to several listservs for students. Within minutes of my forward I received an email from a colleague who demanded to know if I was endorsing this biased film. I answered that I was simply forwarding information, but the angry tone of the email struck me. I thought, why was there so much anger and even fear implicit in this email? This was especially notable because the original email I received about the film’s release lacked any sense o...

Jejak Panda Selamat Datang Lagi Di Blog Ini bandar ceme terpercaya This week I wanted to address the issues I brought up last week, but I can’t ignore this morning’s lead editorial in the Willimantic Chronicle : “Some teachers deserve to go.” (I only momentarily pause to point out that the editorial wasn’t written by anyone on the Chronicle ’s editorial staff, but was taken from a wire service). Anyway, the argument I keep encountering regarding evaluation of teachers and merit pay rests upon the assumption that the teachers don’t work hard enough. The Chronicle editorial criticizes “bad teachers who wear tenure like a badge of honor.” Last week Rick Green at The Hartford Courant responded to a Vanderbilt University study that demonstrated conclusively that merit pay has no measurable benefit on student performance on standardized tests. Green dismissed the results of the study with a single stroke, saying that we need to look “deeper” at the study to draw ...