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Showing posts with label evaluation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evaluation. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Guest Post: Teachers, Statistics, and Teacher Evaluation

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Have I mentioned that I love guest posts?  Priti Shah, an AAPS parent and a UM psychology professor read a version of this during public c...
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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Guest Post: A Parent Reviews Her Child's M-STEP Results, and Learns...

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A guest post by Naomi Zikmund-Fisher about the M-STEP results, and what they mean. Last week, we finally received my children’s scores ...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Wednesday 1/27/2016: AAEA Press Conference, then AAPS Board Meeting

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Ann Arbor teachers have a new evaluation system that involves more testing (of students) and much more paperwork, and they are not happy abo...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

State Legislation: Thank You, Local School Boards, Superintendents, Representatives

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I think I would be remiss if I didn't thank the school board and superintendent (and, in fact, not just of Ann Arbor, but of Lincoln sch...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Guess Who's Evaluating Those Standardized Tests? (I Wish This Were a Joke!)

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From an ad on Craigslist : "The starting pay is $10.70 per hour." For that sum, I'm sure they are getting some highly skil...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Five Updates: Who's Covering the First Elected Board, What's Your First Choice, Where's the Money Gone, Who's Listening Anyway, Why Keep Testing

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1. Ypsilanti Community Schools board voted 4-3 not to do a superintendent search --their superintendent's contract will automatically re...
Monday, March 31, 2014

Smarter Balanced Test: Try It Out Before Your Kids Take It

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Wondering what Smarter Balanced is? It sounds like margarine, right? It's not. It's a test. It's the test that is supposed t...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Missed Opportunities: Ann Arbor and the Washtenaw IB/WAY/ECA Consortium

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I wasn't really paying attention to the big brouhaha as to whether the Ann Arbor schools should sign the contract to continue to partici...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Testing, Testing, Testing: Tale #1

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1. About cartooning I admit, I love my little cartoon , The Parable of the Hammer . But I would hate to be as obscure as Bezonki  (althou...