Posted on June 24th, 2009 by jkelly
In an interview with Education Week last week, Randi Weingarten, president of American Federation of Teachers and SMHC Task Force member, revealed she will head up a teacher-evaluation task force with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The task force is believed to be part of the Foundation’s new strategy as revealed in early 2009, [...]
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Posted on June 23rd, 2009 by arodden
Sir Michael Barber, Vice Chair of the SMHC task force, head of McKinsey & Company’s Global Education Practice, executive director of the Education Delivery Institute in Washington, D.C., and a former top advisor to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, was featured at a recent meeting of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence in Louisville, KY. [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2009 by arodden
In this op-ed in Education Week, Allan Odden, SMHC Co-Director, offers insights on innovative ways to manage teacher-salary structures. SMHC advocates that schools and teachers be strategically managed around measures of student performance and measures of teaching performance. Odden argues that from adequate measures of teachers’ performance in the classroom, we can implement pay schedules [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2009 by jkelly
Today, the Carnegie Corporation of New York – Institute for Advanced Study Commission on Mathematics and Science Education released a new report, “The Opportunity Equation: Transforming Mathematics and Science Education for Citizenship and the Global Economy.” This report – which makes recommendations to “do school differently” and “mobilize for excellence in mathematics and science education” [...]
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Posted on June 4th, 2009 by jkelly
On May 27, Allan Odden, co-director of SMHC, was a guest on Schoolhouse Talk. Citing the SMHC Case Studies, Odden reminded listeners that contrary to popular belief, it is not “in the DNA of urban districts to have low levels of teacher and principal talent.” The first step to addressing the problems of recruitment and [...]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by arodden
The New Teacher Project, whose President Tim Daly is a member of the SMHC National Task Force, released yesterday “The Widget Effect.” This report shows that too many systems inaccurately represent teacher effectiveness by failing to acknowledge differences in teaching effectiveness. The systems treat teachers as “widgets,” ignoring both outstanding teachers as well as ineffective [...]
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