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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)

“appreciating” secretaries, “appreciating” teachers

Last week was Admin­is­tra­tive Pro­fes­sion­als’ Day. On this day, you are sup­posed to take some time to thank your sec­re­tary and/or other sup­port staff, usu­ally with a gift or lunch or what­ever. A Face­book friend who shall remain name­less expressed baf­fle­ment at the exis­tence of said hol­i­day, claim­ing that admin­is­tra­tive pro­fes­sion­als should not get extra …

April 26, 2010 – 10:54 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in current events, education, makes me stabby, teaching | Tagged , , , , | Comments (11)

complications in commercializing curriculum

This NYT arti­cle piqued my curios­ity: Sell­ing Les­son Plans Online Raises Cash and Ques­tions Basi­cally, some teach­ers have made quite a bit of money by sell­ing their les­son plans online to other teach­ers. Some teach­ers’ employ­ers are won­der­ing whether they should be receiv­ing a cut of the prof­its, and one edu­ca­tional expert warns that the …

November 16, 2009 – 6:00 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in applied ethics, education, ethics, saw it in the news | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)