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Monday, March 10, 2014

3-10-14 V.A.M.: Value Added Measure

V.A.M.: Value Added Measure:









It's Always Christmas When You're an Educational Deformer
It Was a Wonderful Life!Scrooge counting his plunder from yet another cyber charter.
So, Will We Be a Democracy or Not?
Now Out of Print?The educational deformers chant:  "This is not a democracy!"   As D.C. Chancellor, Rhee said, "I'm not running this district by consensus or committee.  We're not running this school district through the democratic process."  She seemed to use everything in her repertoire, short of taping mouths shut in D.C., to reinforce this principle.  In N.Y.C., Bloomberg's


V.A.M.: Value Added Measure: There May Be More You Can Learn How to Do in Five Weeks than Teach for America!
V.A.M.: Value Added Measure: There May Be More You Can Learn How to Do in Five Weeks than Teach for America!: There May Be More You Can Learn How to Do in Five Weeks than Teach for America!Teach for America has two new pilot programs.  Within the new cohort of recruits, there will be a subset engaged in a year-long preparation, including more classroom experience, the study of "learning theo