Month: May 2022

EdNext Podcast: What Went Wrong with Obama’s Teacher Evaluation Reform? – by Education Next

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The efforts by the Obama administration to promote changes in the way teachers are evaluated have paid off in some ways but backfired in others. In this episode of the EdNext podcast, Marty West talks with Chad Aldeman, a principal at Bellwether Education Partners who worked as a policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Education, about what went right and what went wrong with...

EdStat: To Date, 75 Percent of Charter Schools in New Orleans Have Adopted High-Quality Curricula – by Education Next

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Research suggests that consistent exposure to high-quality curricula has a significant positive impact on student learning. The Louisiana Department of Education developed a rating system that identifies curricula with the strongest alignment to the state’s academic standards, identified partners that provide high-quality professional learning to teachers, and supported school...

The Teacher Evaluation Revamp, In Hindsight – by Chad Aldeman

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When President Obama took office in 2009, his administration quickly seized on teacher evaluations as an important public-policy problem. Today, much of his legacy on K–12 education rests on efforts to revamp evaluations in the hopes of improving teaching across the country, which his administration pursued via a series of incentives for states. In response, many states adopted...

Great Curriculum Will Fuel, Not Hamper, Charter Autonomy and Innovation – by Kunjan Narechania

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In the years following Hurricane Katrina, reforms in New Orleans lifted student achievement by 0.2 to 0.4 standard deviations (Good News for New Orleans, features, Fall 2015). More recent results indicate that ACT scores, graduation rates, and the number of college-going students also rose at rates that outpaced the rest of the state and even the nation. While we are proud of ...

EdStat: Charter Schools Have Gained a Substantial Following in Louisiana, Where 148 Charters Now Serve more than 80,000 Students – by Education Next

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Charter schools have gained a substantial following in Louisiana, where 148 charters now serve more than 80,000 students. But charters have also attracted opposition from many school districts and teachers. In 2014, some of these opponents banded together and turned to the courts, claiming that state-authorized charter schools are not public schools under Louisiana’s constitut...

What Obama’s Signature Education Reform Got Wrong – by External Relations, Education Next

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Contact: Chad Aldeman: 319-321-1925, chad.aldeman@bellwethereducation.org, Bellwether Education Partners Jackie Kerstetter: 814-440-2299, jackie.kerstetter@educationnext.org, Education Next What Obama’s signature education reform got wrong Four lessons offer guidance for next administration January 12, 2017—Conservative education reformers see disconcerting parallels between President-elect Trump’s proposed…

EdStat: 38 States had Statewide Quality Rating and Improvement Systems for Preschools by February 2017 – by Education Next

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Outcomes-based accountability has come to preschools in the form of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS). QRIS give ratings to early childhood education and care settings based on a variety of measures, and unlike accountability in K-12, participation in most QRIS systems is voluntary. Many such systems include differential funding reimbursement for programs with high...