by Carol A. Josel | Apr 7, 2016 | Articles
It’s said that, as much as things change, they stay the same, but that’s not entirely true of the Every Student Succeeds Act, No Child Left Behind’s replacement and the latest rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). That law, enacted back in 1965...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 1, 2015 | Commentary
From the National Council on Teacher Quality, a few facts to consider: 42 states and D.C. have policies requiring that public school teachers be evaluated on the basis of student growth and achievement. In 2009, only 15 states tied student standardized test scores to...
by Carol A. Josel | Oct 20, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “Just when things can’t get any worse for kindergartners, they do. It used to be that kindergartners could play–which is how childhood development experts say young children learn and are socialized best. Today, 5- and 6-year-olds are forced to...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 18, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “Critics wondered how a competition among states–which would create winners and losers–could create educational equity (given that winners were chosen by how slavishly they bowed to the Education Department’s reform tastes, and that the...
by Carol A. Josel | Jul 14, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “The American Statistical Association just slammed the high-stakes ‘value-added method’ (VAM) of evaluating teachers that has been increasingly embraced in states as part of school reform efforts. VAM purports to be able to take student...
