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Friday, January 10, 2014

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Should Universities Reward Academics for Public Influence?
Should Universities Reward Academics for Public Influence?. via Should Universities Reward Academics for Public Influence?.


Why Didn’t the Gates Foundation Study the Policy Issues Regarding Value-Added Teacher Evaluations?
In the first three posts of this series (see Diane Ravitch’s summary of them here), I argue that Matt DiCarlo’s retrospective analysis of market-driven reform research in 2013, “The Year in Research on Market-Based Education Reforms: 2013,” gives short shrift to practical realities. DiCarlo complains, however, that the Gates Foundation’s Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) study was […]


1-9-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Ending Poverty Requires Community, Not WarEnding Poverty Requires Community, Not War. via Ending Poverty Requires Community, Not War.1 by plthomasedd / 5min 1-8-14 @ The Chalk Face@ THE CHALK FACE: A Fantastic Summative Comment on My Data Mining PostOn January 3, 2014, I posted a piece entitled Beware of Data Sharing Cheerleaders Offering Webinars. On January 5, Diane Ravitch fea