Will Georgia follow Florida by releasing teacher VAM-like scores? In Florida's case, the Florida Times-Union released links to all 116,723 teachers' VAM scores in an extraordinary unethical move that has happened other locations, including New York, and California....
In spite of the "System" the evidence is that urban teachers have a record of success, not one that is spiraling down. The present state of reform of American education is based on the idea that American students are doing poorly, and this will lead to disastrous...
Latest Story People are asking for better schools, with no clear idea how to improve eduction, or even how to define improvement of education (except to increase test performance on high-stakes tests). Most people are in favor of improving education. But when asked...
NAEP Large City Study Sheds Light on the Effects of the Atlanta Public Schools' Cheating Scandal. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) created the Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) in 2002 to assess student achievement in the nation's large...
Does High Stakes Testing Produce Students Who are "Study Machines?" According to Emma Vanbergen, Shangahi-based study abroad director for BE Education, a company that places Chinese students in British schools and universities, it's not surprising that Shanghai...
Latest Story Note: This is a letter written by a teen living in Atlanta in the year 2063. Her name is Sklyer F., a 14 year-old girl living in Atlanta with her family---3 brothers, her father who home schools his children, and her mother who is an...
