The train has left the station: More on teacher pay-4-performance

06-08-2011

Blog by Larry Cuban/Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Knowledge, someone said, is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not making a fruit salad out of it. And that difference between knowledge and wisdom is how I feel about those state- and district-approved schemes that lean heavily upon “value-added” measures for a substantial portion of the judgment that a teacher is highly effective, marginally effective, or ineffective. Sure, I know that eager policymakers push value-added measures, flawed as they are, to evaluate and pay teachers; but it is unwise, even foolish, to make it the central measurement. Tomatoes in a fruit salad? Better in a pasta sauce. I say that even though that policy train filled with tomatoes has left the station. (more...)

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