Thursday Morning Links: School Performance

  • Milwaukee’s new School Performance Ratings:

    Andrekopoulos said those studies are showing that students in high value-added programs are decidedly more engaged in actual classroom activity than those in low value-added schools.
    In a recent presentation to the School Board, he said MPS now understands why low-performing schools are that way. “We didn’t know that two years ago,” he said.
    Milwaukee Public Schools has begun listing how individual schools are doing not only on the widely used measure of what percentage of students are proficient or btter in standardizd tests, (attainment), but also with a measure in which the average increase in student scores from year to year in each school is compared with the average for all of MPS (value added).

  • Houston to pay teacher bonuses based on student test scores.

2 thoughts on “Thursday Morning Links: School Performance”

  1. Value added education makes so much more sense as a way of evaluating school effectiveness. This approach asks not whether any child has been left behind but whether all children are moving ahead. This is what all students deserve in their education, but what NCLB says is that the attainment of some minimum standard of achievement is “good enough.”

  2. However, FedEd is going to allow some states to pilot value added AYP programs within NCLB. Will Wisconsin be a leader in this area and pilot a growth based model under this federal initiative?
    It’s something I’d like to see.

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