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Category Archives: Measuring Effective Teaching
Corporate America Might Need Common Core, But Our “Outputs” Don’t
“Kill poverty not human beings. Stop putting the value of money over the value of lives.” – Mahatma Gandhi December 8, 2013 Dear Allan Golston, This is in response to your editorial America’s Businesses Need the Common Core, which was posted … Continue reading
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Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Learn: A Year at Mission Hill chapter 6
Chapter 6: Like a Family Dear Mr. Gates, Microsoft’s “stack ranking” management practice has been in the news lately, most recently on Valerie Strauss’ blog The Answer Sheet (Microsoft’s lesson on what not to do with teachers, Washington Post, 8/26/13). … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Gates, Collaboration, Common Core High Stakes Testing, Diane Ravitch, Anthony Cody, Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, Freedom to Learn: A Year At Mission Hill, Freedom to Teach, High Stakes Testing, Junk Science of High Stakes Standardized Testing, Measuring Effective Teaching, Microsoft, Mission Hill school, Stack Ranking, Teacher Evaluations, Testing
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Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Learn: A Year At Mission Hill
Chapter 3: Making it Real Dear readers, I watched chapter three of A Year At Mission Hill with a heavy heart, almost tearful. The way in which educators teach and students learn at Mission Hill is exactly what I’ve viscerally yearned … Continue reading
Beginning the School Year: Building a Strong Social and Emotional Foundation
Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Learn: A Year at Mission Hill Chapter 2: Beginning the Year Dear readers, As you will see in chapter two of A Year at Mission Hill, at the beginning of the school year the teachers … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Gates, Common Core, Corporate Education Reform, Democracy, Dialogue with Teachers, Freedom to Learn: A Year At Mission Hill, Freedom to Teach, Measuring Effective Teaching, Measuring Student Engagement, Our Schools Are NOT Broken, Real World Education, Respect for Teachers, Uncategorized
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Every single one of my students “failed” the state test this past school year, and only 1 student passed in the entire 3rd grade at my school. Does this mean my colleagues and I are poor teachers?
Mr. and Mrs. Gates, “You can lead a horse to water, but cannot make him drink.” This old saying pretty much sums up the education profession. Teachers and other education professionals devote their lives to imparting knowledge to children day … Continue reading
Posted in End High Stakes Testing, Measuring Effective Teaching, Special Education, Standardized Testing
Tagged 3rd Grade Retention Policy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Corporate Education Reform, Deaf, Deafness, End High Stakes Testing, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, High Stakes Testing, Special Education, The Bill and Melind, You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
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Socrates’ Ghost: “As a teacher, see each child’s mind as a bottle that has traveled across the sea.”
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Gates, I am proud to be a teacher. I have taught middle school and high student students for 19 years. I have tutored all ages from early elementary through college. I have degrees in English, education, … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, End High Stakes Testing, Measuring Effective Teaching, Teacher Evaluations
Tagged Assessment, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Charles Dickens, Corporate Education Reform, Curriculum, Edreform, education, End High Stakes Testing, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, High Stakes Testing, Learning, Middle School, Public Education, Socrates, Standardized Testing, Teacher Evaluations, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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As for your opinion on the almighty test, I’m wondering, sir, why you feel that standardized testing will improve education?
“It may surprise you–it was certainly surprising to us–but the field of education doesn’t know very much at all about effective teaching.” ~ Bill Gates Dear Mr. Gates: Since you have never taught in a public school, I would love … Continue reading
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Special Ed Teacher: High stakes testing is not the way to assess student progress or teacher effectiveness.
Dear Mr. Gates and the Gates Foundation, High stakes testing is not the way to assess student progress or teacher effectiveness. The tests currently in use – and worse, the ones coming, such as the PARCC test – have little … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Billionaires, Common Core Tests, Corporate Education Reform, End High Stakes Testing, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, High Stakes Testing, IDEA, Measuring Effective Teaching, NCLB, Race to the Top, RttT, Special Education, Teacher Evaluations, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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An Open Letter to Big Brother Bill Gates by teacherbiz
Dear Big Brother Bill: You know that feeling you get when you think you’re doing something good—and then you realize you’re actually doing harm? Wait…you might not. Hold that thought. WOW—I have so many things to say to you. In … Continue reading
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