By Tamera Malone Teaching is one of the best and most rewarding professions a person could choose to have. This important work that we do as educators can be demanding and at times may take precedence over everything else we…
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Just the Facts: Charter High School VAM Comparison
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At the beginning of September we ran a piece titled “making the grade: 2014 Memphis Charter High School Performance.” In this piece we examined absolute proficiency levels as an effort to identify which charters are doing well, which are worth…
Sharing the Memphis Teacher Voice with DOE
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On Wednesday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and his team wrapped up their trip through the American south in Memphis, Tennessee to see more of the amazing work being done by students, teachers and school leaders throughout the city. I won’t…
Just the Facts: ASD vs iZone Performance Part 2
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Policy Implications to “Just the Facts: A Longitudinal Analysis of ASD and SCS’s iZone” Primary Policy Implications Race to the Top Progress In yesterday’s piece I examined the data for Shelby County School’s iZone and compared it to achievement results…
Just the Facts: ASD vs iZone Performance Part 1
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By Ezra Howard In my last piece I conducted a longitudinal analysis of the TCAP results of the state-run Achievement School District (ASD). This study was unique in several ways. For one, to my knowledge it is the only longitudinal…
Making the Grade: 2014 Memphis Charter High School Performance
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The 2014 school-level TVAAS data has been out for a few weeks now and since we did an analysis earlier this summer on local charter performance using 2013 data, I thought it only appropriate that I run a similar analysis…
By The Numbers: Middle School Performance in Shelby County
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State TCAP Data is out! James Aycock breaks down middle school performance to identify who’s doing well and who isn’t for the purpose of learning from the best and improving the rest.
Just the Facts: A Longitudinal Analysis of ASD Schools Before and After Takeover
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By Ezra Howard; The Achievement School District just wrapped up year two in Tennessee with modest growth. However, if we are truly to going to evaluate the ASD, we must do so compared to how schools were doing before the takeover. The results are surprising and carry heavy implications for the future of the ASD and similar districts nation-wide.
Alternative Teachers Need Alternative Evaluations
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Teacher evaluations always seemed fairly routine to me. Not much fanfare, not too many problems, even at the alternative school where I teach. However, that changed for me last summer. As I was enjoying my favorite way to wind down…
A Teaching Profession for My Generation
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This post originally appeared in the Commercial Appeal on Sunday, August 3rd 2014. I have a confession: Halfway through my second year of teaching, I was questioning whether teaching was really the right career for me. I was putting in…