This past week, the Florida Board of Education adopted rules establishing, based just on the VAM data, defining what “Highly Effective, Effective, Needs Improvement/Developing, and Unsatisfactory” should mean. If this model set out in the rule had been applied to the aggregate historical VAM data, the distribution of teachers would have been as below at… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: July 2015
Quality of Teacher Hires Improved During the Recession, Analysis Finds – Teacher Beat – Education Week
Once again, more information that the quality of teachers matters, this study was based on Florida student and teacher data. Teachers hired during recession periods appeared to be somewhat more effective boosting students’ math scores than those teachers hired in more secure times, according to a new working paper published by the National Bureau of… Read more »
Prior to Common-Core Tests, Some States Raised the Bar for ‘Proficiency’ – Curriculum Matters – Education Week
However, Gary Phillips, a vice president and institute fellow at the American Institutes for Research (and former acting commissioner of NCES), explained Wednesday in a media call about the release that the standards still varied greatly— by up to three or four grade levels. “The rigor of the grade 4 [proficiency] standards in the highest… Read more »
The state’s teachers union says it is disappointed after another loss in its effort to overturn a 2011 law that set new guidelines on teacher evaluations
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The state’s teachers union says it is disappointed after another loss in its effort to overturn a 2011 law that set new guidelines on teacher evaluations.A federal appeals court in Atlanta on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s decision last year to throw out the case.Seven teachers from three counties, as well… Read more »
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