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on the non-normativity of value-added analysis

As you are likely to have heard by now, the Los Ange­les Times recently con­ducted and pub­lished a value-added analy­sis of some of the city’s ele­men­tary school teach­ers, using data that had been col­lected by the school dis­trict but never pre­vi­ously ana­lyzed in this way. There was a nice sum­mary of the value-added analy­sis and …

September 4, 2010 – 12:44 pm | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in applied ethics, economics-ish, education, education policy, ethics, philosophy of education, teaching, value | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

book review: Diane Ravitch's "The Death and Life of the Great American School System"

I recently fin­ished Diane Rav­itch’s book, “The Death and Life of the Great Amer­i­can School Sys­tem: How Test­ing and Choice are Under­min­ing Edu­ca­tion.” This book has been get­ting quite a bit of atten­tion even out­side of edu­ca­tional cir­cles so I fig­ured I should read it. Rav­itch is an his­to­rian of edu­ca­tion and, viewed as a his­tory, …

June 9, 2010 – 4:48 pm | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in book reviews, education, education policy, school choice | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (10)