I mentioned earlier this week an article from the Washington Post, where Jay Mathews asks some pointed questions of the LA Times reporters who will publish LA Unified’s value-added scores. Those reporters responded in one of Mathews’s latest posts. There answers repeats the praises of value-added testing, which have some truth, but they still fail [...]
Do you ever wonder if your news reports on a school’s test scores give you enough information to be useful? Jay Mathews at Class Struggle does an amazing job looking at the recent uproar of the LA Times planned publishing of school test score data with teacher’s names attached. He echoes some problems that I [...]
The Casey Lartigue Show! does Seoul: Is Our Education Reporters Learning?. With everybody out on break, it’s a slow time in education land, but the above post raises a good question in my mind. If you aren’t in the teaching business, what kinds of education stories (if any) would you want to see reported on [...]
