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I returned a few weeks ago from the California Charter School Association conference, where I was among 3,000 educators brave enough to lead 1,200 charter schools in the not-so-golden state. [...]
As education leaders declare their support for equal justice, and repeat their commitment to reduce the achievement gap, they are hard-pressed to answer the most direct questions about that gap [...]
I’m feeling very blue today. I vote green. And I stop for red lights. When I tell you what I do or how I feel using a language of colors, [...]
The Dashboard has changed a little each year in the way it presents and interprets measures of districts’ and schools’ vital signs. But one thing that has remained unchanged is [...]
Two more areas of mismeasurement are baked into California's accountability policies, and are expressed in its Dashboard. One area is English learners. The other is graduation rates. The transient category [...]
The CDE’s Dashboard has become the new interpreter of schools’ and districts’ health. Its dials and color matrixes have replaced numbers as the measurement language of accountability. Its rules determined [...]
Paul Warren, research associate at the Public Policy Institute of California Paul Warren, who was deputy for testing and accountability at the CDE from 1999 to 2003, has [...]
California’s CAASPP test results were released statewide on October 18. All over the state, many of the 4,500-plus school board trustees are sitting down with their trusted sources at their [...]
Educators almost everywhere rely on classifying and sorting their students. If a child is seven years old, she’s a second-grader. If a child’s parents earn less than 1.8 times the [...]
I’m back from the desert of Palm Springs, where I had the pleasure in mid-June to address the annual conference of the California Charter Authorizing Professionals (CCAP), and listen to [...]
