Posts Tagged: data

Tennessee & teacher evaluation: They just did it. Now they can make it even better.

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Pragmatic teacher evaluation systems are one (among many) important policies that can help student achieverment. Arne Duncan’s recent HuffPo column introducing the new report on Tennessee’s teacher evaluation system is exciting for several reasons: 1) Incorporaing student test scores into an evaluation system is justifiably unsettling and frustrating for teachers. I was in the fortunate… Read more »

Dive Into Data With Kickboard

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Below is a snapshot of assessment data for my four sections of 7th-grade English, pulled from Kickboard, a powerful student data platform. The results come from a test taken at the end of our unit on informational texts, just weeks before our high-stakes state standardized testing: The first two columns show results across classes for… Read more »

Start Me Up: Dispatch from Startup Weekend Washington DC EDU

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Over the weekend, I had the privilege to attend a portion of the second Startup Weekend event focused on education. Startup Weekend is itself a startup organization that organizes gatherings of developers, designers, business and marketing experts, and investors to build startup companies in a single weekend. This year, the organization began a series of… Read more »

Crowd-Sourced Funding Gap for the Critical Middle

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Middle school is a critical time for students, particularly those in high poverty schools. The stats are stark: by 4th grade, students in low-income communities are 2-3 grades behind higher-income peers; graduating seniors in low-income communities average 8th-grade achievement levels compared to higher-income peers. Lots of things go wrong in middle school: puberty, friends, music,… Read more »