- performance as individual professionals isn't valued. It can't ever be valued as long as teachers aren't willing to change the way they are #
- evaluated. The funny thing is that complaints about the use of test scores obscures the reality that tests offer the most-objective evidence #
- of performance. In the private sector, if your job isn't in a "line" or operation part of the business, evaluation is not nearly as #
- objective. Teachers, in general, in this case would get a better measurement of their performance than many in the private sector. #
- @lioncaller Actually, it is not just because of poor management or global issues. If you look past the layoffs that get the big headlines in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller a job loss is more likely to be because of performance issues (and in nonprofits, politics). in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller Sorry to break this to you, lioncaller, but in education, we have to measure how children learn. After all, when you consider in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller that America spends $528 billion a year on education, and requires that all children attend school, it is critical to assure in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller that every child is provided a high-quality education. Unlike private corporations, whose impacts affect a few individually in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller (and note, a few is a relative term — everyone's job and livelihood is of value), education is paid out of the pockets of every in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller American. We also declare that a high-quality education is a civil right. If we are to assure that every child is getting in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller high-quality instruction and that education is provided to every child, we must measure the efficacy of that instruction and in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller see how each child is progressing. Portfolio assessments are far too subjective (as are observations in case of teacher evals) in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller so testing is the best solution. in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller I agree that layoffs often seem unfair. Especially since the cost of the worker (i.e. salary) comes more into play than their in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller performance. I'm not going to even argue that. But every day in this country, outside of our eye's view and experience in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller we have plenty of job dismissals happening every day. I won't argue about performance in nonprofit arena (I have seen plenty in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller let go over political considerations than over performance), but having worked in the for-profit sector in a line job, I've seen in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller more people fired for performance issues than laid off or let go for politics. But then, I must also note that this is my in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller experience as your experience is yours. It's not exactly unworthy of consideration, but it isn't objective either. in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller Well, the comparison to the private sector stands because that's what government employment (which, teaching, for the most part in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller is) compares to. Comparing teaching to other public sector jobs, on the other hand, is sort of meaningless in some sense in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller because most public sector jobs are poorly evaluated (compared to the private sector — and note, I'm not saying evals in the in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller private sector are perfect). Comparing one poorly-evaluated job in a sector known for lax performance management to another in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller just doesn't work. As for college education and jobs: I'm not going to go there. The reason why most companies demand four-year in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller degrees for jobs that hardly need it (and, I'll agree, many don't need it) is because of the well-proven low quality of in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller secondary K-12 education. Which is why the need to improve the quality of instruction, curricula and evaluation in our schools in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller is beyond important. in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller If we improve K-12 education and ensure that more children graduate from high school well prepared for any option they pursue in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller be it higher ed (as I define it, as either college, technical school or apprenticeships) or whatever, then we can improve the in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller quality of the lives of the poorest and historically-disenfranchised minorities and perhaps make college an option not a in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller requirement for jobs that don't need such high levels of education. in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller: Not a rhetorical loop, just an honest argument (one has to admit ambiguity). As for the corp. world and evals: In most places in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller it is taken very seriously. Whether or not those evals are of the highest quality is another question. Again, if your job is in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller: not on the line, evals are not well-connected to performance. Same in nonprofit sector (and in an even worse way). in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller Thanks for the invitation. More than happy to join. And thanks for your perspective. It is a valuable one. in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller And I definitely agree that bringing more relevance to education is key to solving the dropout crisis. Sure, children need to in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller learn the ABCs and about Aristotle. But helping them understand that what you learn in school often impacts what you do in the in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller real world is critical. People often forget that for all the advances in technology, we still wrestle with many of the major in reply to lioncaller #
- @lioncaller issues that perplexed the ancients. And that trigonometry is important because of its uses in daily life (welders, for example, #
- along with machine tool and die makers, who earn far more a year than I do). #
- RT @CharterInsights: RT @stlBizJournal: American Quality Schools to open charter in St. Louis #edreform #
- RT @EdEquality: RT @EducationSector: Today's QUICK Hits: #edreform #
- @davewiner: Actually, if you are the GOP, you are licking your chops. Unpopular law = capturing control of Congress #Congress2010 #
- RT @AndresHenriquez: RT @davos: Skills shortages persist despite high unemployment: #humancapital #edreform #
- Additionally, by spending so much political capital on #HCR Obama loses ability to influence more important issues i.e. #NoChild ESEA. #
- RT @tvanderark: great to see NJ become #CharterSchool friendly #edreform #
- Church pastored by Joel Osteen helps form charter school for autistic children #SPED #edreform #
- Off-ed: Dumb idea. RT @mathewi: RT @ScepticGeek: Palm to drop WebOS and use Android instead?: WebOS is great. #
- RT @Stand4Children: Urban students making noticeable gains on NAEP #edreform #NoChild/#ESEA #
- A craptastic browser? RT @howardowens @scottkarp @martinstabe: data on hunch that "Safari"is iPad killer app #
- RT @EdEquality: RT @Clausvz: Debate on teacher unions and their effect on school performance: http://bit.ly/9ANGsM #edreform NEA #AFT #
- RT @dgblankinship @tkonz @D_Aarons: 143 Chicago Public Schools students shot so far in 2009-10; 20 killed.http://bit.ly/aBj7Gr #urbaned #
- RT @MBAENews: RT @usedgov: Sec Duncan on NAEP Reading 2009. "Achievement … isn't growing fast enough." http://go.usa.gov/iOF #edpolicy #
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