Wp and NYT on Gates Study/Connecting the dots/A Pennsylvania school district found the right formula to cut costs, can it work in other cities

Gates group says test scores a sign of good teachers

Saturday, December 11, 2010

By Nick Anderson, The Washington Post

While debate rages in the education world about how to measure effective teaching -- or whether it is even possible to do so -- research funded by a prominent advocate of data-driven analysis has found that growth in annual student test scores is a reliable sign of a good teacher.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10345/1110036-84.stm#ixzz17znInDZZ

What Works in the Classroom? Ask the Students

By SAM DILLON Published: December 10, 2010

How useful are the views of public school students about their teachers?

Quite useful, according to preliminary results released on Friday from a $45 million research project that is intended to find new ways of distinguishing good teachers from bad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/education/11education.html?_r=1&ref=education

Connecting the dots…

Sunday December 12th

Today I read Jan Murphy’s Harrisburg Patriot News coverage of the Pennsylvania Society weekend in New York and noticed that Chris Bravacos was the sponsor of a standing room only event there:

http://keystonestateeducationcoalition.blogspot.com/2010/12/sunday-december-12th-connecting-dots.html

A Pennsylvania school district found the right formula to cut costs, can it work in other cities

RocktheCapitol

Posted by Jan Chaplick December 11, 2010

http://www.rockthecapital.com/12/11/congress-work/