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08/12/2019 by Sean Brady

Does your school really have a chronic absence problem?

chronic absence

Does your district have a high chronic absence rate? Well, it turns out that that rate may be inflated due to problems with accounting accuracy.

Filed Under: NCLB & ESSA accountability Tagged With: essa

02/22/2019 by Sean Brady

New York’s ESSA accountability system nightmare

ESSA accountability

New York’s implementation of the ESSA accountability system has produced a bureaucratic quagmire worthy of Orwell, Dickens or Kafka.

Filed Under: NCLB & ESSA accountability Tagged With: essa, school accountability

01/28/2018 by Sean Brady

How the NYS Ed Department distorts school performance

The New York State Education Department’s accountability system distorts school performance in absurd ways and with perverse results.

Filed Under: NCLB & ESSA accountability Tagged With: benchmarking, dropout rate, education, graduation rate, school accountability

01/26/2018 by Sean Brady

What changes are coming to New York’s school accountability system?

There are significant changes coming to New York State’s school accountability system now that the US Department of Education has approved the state’s Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plan.

Filed Under: NCLB & ESSA accountability

03/08/2016 by Sean Brady

Is New York’s Education Department capable of transforming itself?

With the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act, New York’s Ed Dept has a huge opportunity to reinvent itself. But is it capable of transformation?

Filed Under: K-12 education, NCLB & ESSA accountability Tagged With: assumptions, biases, essa, nclb, Race to the Top, school accountability

10/13/2015 by Sean Brady

Why NY’s Grade 3 – 8 assessments are useless for tracking improvement

New York’s school districts must wait until the summer of 2019 to get an accurate assessment of the effectiveness of their ELA and math strategies.

Filed Under: NCLB & ESSA accountability Tagged With: Common Core, implementation

04/08/2015 by Sean Brady

US Senate bill would eliminate punitive nature of NCLB

The New York State Education Department has fetishized failure, distorting overall school performance. Fortunately, relief may be on its way in the form of a bipartisan bill to revise the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law and eliminate its most punitive elements.

Filed Under: NCLB & ESSA accountability Tagged With: nclb, Race to the Top, school accountability

01/26/2015 by Sean Brady

Minimum qualifications for NY’s Commissioner of Education

The New York State Education Department has posted the job of Commissioner of Education. The stated qualifications are boilerplate and underwhelming. I suggest that NYSED’s HR department amend the posting to add the following.

Applicants for the position of Commissioner of Education must demonstrate

– The ability to inspire the state’s professional educators to extraordinary levels of performance.
– Evidence of having eliminated wasteful, bureaucratic burdens on school districts.
– A history of transparency as a leader.

Filed Under: K-12 education, NCLB & ESSA accountability Tagged With: Common Core, education, graduation rate, Race to the Top, school accountability

12/11/2013 by Sean Brady

Diane Ravitch features Prism’s post on John King & the Common Core

Diane Ravitch has blogged about my recent post, John King, the Common Core and cognitive bias.

Filed Under: NCLB & ESSA accountability Tagged With: Common Core

11/14/2013 by Sean Brady

John King, the Common Core and cognitive bias

It’s pretty clear that New York State Commission of Education John King is one of the nation’s top advocates for the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. It’s also becoming increasingly apparent that he may be doing more to undermine the implementation of the Common Core than he is doing to support it. For […]

Filed Under: Decision-making, NCLB & ESSA accountability Tagged With: biases, Common Core, decision-making, fallacies

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