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Good Work: 10 Quotes on Measuring Your Life
My friends from Innosight recently reminded me of Clay Christensen's article How Will You Measure Your Life? After a great weekend with my wife and friends, I reread it waiting for a flight. Here's 10 quotes that made me stop and think.
Good Work: What Did You Accomplish This Week?
Source: Getty Images After college I started calling my parents on Sunday night. My dad would start the conversation by asking, “What did you accomplish this week?” Simple but frustrating, it called me to account. It made me ask if the world was a better place by an…
The old deal, the new deal, and the metrics
I don’t know about you, but I’m not paying much attention to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) debates in Washington. NCLB, flawed as it was, represented a bipartisan commitment to equity and an end to the toleration of chronic failure. What’s going on now (this weird local…
Good Assessment Key to Strong Accountability
Some #EdReform, #EdEquality, and #EdPolicy colleagues thought my blog Assessment Will Advance When it Moves Into the Background suggested that I didn’t support the idea of summative assessments and their associated use in school accountability systems. This section may have begged the question: We’ll need to invent our way out of…
Assessment Will Advance When It Moves Into the Background
Digital Learning Now is a framework for state education policy for the digital age. Key to quality is Element #8, Assessment and Accountability. On assessment, DLN suggests that states should administer testing online: Administering tests digitally has multiple benefits. Tests can be administered and scored quickly and…
LA’s Promise Surpasses API Growth Targets
LA's Promise, a nonprofit working to help shift educational, social and health outcomes in the South Los Angeles community, released its 2011 Academic Performance Index (API) Wednesday reflecting a significant jump in achievement at West Adams Preparatory High School and Manual Arts High School.
Promoting Quality Online Learning
Fordham is launching a series of working papers on digital learning. Rick Hess makes an important contribution with the first paper focused on quality
The Importance of Value Added
The combination of digital learning and performance based reviews could make it much easier to measure student progress and transform todays education system.
10 Strategies to Improve the Quality of Online Learning
There are resources available to make a shift to digital education but there are important strategies that states need to take to ensure the quality of online learning.
Rest of the Story in L.A.
L.A. chief wants to use value added evaluation. UTLA now more likely to adopt to keep names out of the paper.