Posted on August 31st, 2009 by arodden
Graduates of the New York City Aspiring Principals Program (APP) have successfully increased English test scores at traditionally low-performing schools, says a study released August 24 by the Institute for Education and Social Policy at New York University. APP is part of the New York City Leadership Academy, which was formed in 2003 to recruit, [...]
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Posted on August 27th, 2009 by jkelly
The New Teacher Project (TNTP) recently assembled a PowerPoint presentation to help education leaders and policymakers pursue Race to the Top reforms. “Interpreting Race to the Top” includes:
1. A succinct summary of Race to the Top application and selection criteria;
2. An analysis of each of the four Race to the Top “assurances”: standards, data systems, great teachers [...]
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Posted on August 21st, 2009 by arodden
In this rich working paper, Anthony Milanowski, SMHC Senior Researcher, with contributions from Herbert G. Heneman, III, Dickson-Bascom professor (Emeritus) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Steve Kimball, SMHC and CPRE researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reviews the current state of the art in teaching assessment by examining seven assessment systems. This study is [...]
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Posted on August 18th, 2009 by jkelly
SMHC Task Force member Denis Doyle stresses the importance of HR alignment and strong school leadership in this recent post on The Doyle Report. According to Doyle, the success of Montgomery County MD schools is largely due to its management of human capital. Doyle writes, “One of the lessons that cannot be stressed enough is [...]
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Posted on August 17th, 2009 by arodden
In “Obama’s Stealth Education Reformer,” Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift reports on U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s presentation at the SMHC Task Force meeting on August 4. Clift writes, “Duncan turned heads when he entered the Ritz-Carlton in Washington early this month in part because he’s so tall (6-foot-5), and because he is offering the kind of [...]
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Posted on August 6th, 2009 by jkelly
Raymond Pecheone, co-executive director of the Stanford University School Redesign Network and director of the Performance Assessment for California Teachers, and Ruth Chung Wei, director of Assessment Research and Development at the Stanford University School Redesign Network, recently reviewed The New Teacher Project’s report The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on [...]
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Posted on August 6th, 2009 by arodden
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan met with the SMHC Task Force on Wednesday to discuss talent and human capital management from the federal perspective. Educator effectiveness has been at the crux of the education reform dialogue, and the recently released guidelines for the Race to the Top grant competition prioritize the development of “Great [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2009 by jkelly
The SMHC District and State Reform Networks are a critical focus of the ongoing SMHC project. Task Force Vice-Chairs Carl Cohn and Michelle Rhee, along with Janet Knupp, Task Force member, and Betsy Arons, consultant, Gates Foundation, updated the Task Force on the work of the District Reform Network. Launched in 2009, the District Reform [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2009 by arodden
The SMHC National Task Force reconvened yesterday and today. Responding to the recent national focus on systems to measure teacher effectiveness, SMHC Co-Directors Allan Odden and Jim Kelly, along with SMHC Senior Policy Analyst Anthony Milanowski led a discussion on approaches to measuring teaching practice. Odden, Kelly, and Milanowski unveiled the findings of the new SMHC paper, [...]
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