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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

4-1-14 @ The Chalk Face

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Why Did Raj Chetty Allow His Research to Be Used Against Teachers in Vergara?

An expert witness for the plaintiffs in Vergara v California, Tom Kane, argued that effective teaching, and presumably ineffective teaching, in the Los Angeles schools can be measured. Vergara, of course, seeks to strike down teacher due process and it is about as overtly anti-teacher of an action as can be imagined.  In a previous […]


3-31-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Whatever Will We Do If We Dump Common Core?A component of pushing the so-called Common Core State Standards (CCSS) involves panicking the public into believing that in the absence of CCSS, states will have no standards. This message is promoted in the Associated Press. On March 30, 2014, Melinda Deslatte offers the following If Not CCSS, Then What? message in her coverage of the