{"id":133,"date":"2008-01-21T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=133"},"modified":"2008-01-21T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T15:09:08","slug":"testing-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Testing teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/21\/nyregion\/21teachers.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin&#038;ref=education&#038;pagewanted=print\">Article<\/a> about a project in NYC that attempts to measure the impact of teachers in the classroom.  <\/p>\n<p>Clearly resisted by most parties, I was struck by the declaration of one of the NYC officials: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If the only thing we do is make this data available to every person in the city \u00e2\u20ac\u201d every teacher, every parent, every principal, and say do with it what you will \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that will have been a powerful step forward,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Chris Cerf, the deputy schools chancellor who is overseeing the project. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you know as a parent what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the deal, I think that whole aspect will change behavior.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are we going to publish the rates of new teachers who quit?  Of poverty within a given school?  Of principal turnover?   <\/p>\n<p>This data without context &#8212; how it will undoubtedly be taken regardless of how its presented &#8212; will be utterly irrelevant.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article about a project in NYC that attempts to measure the impact of teachers in the classroom. Clearly resisted by most parties, I was struck by the declaration of one of the NYC officials: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If the only thing we do is make this data available to every person in the city \u00e2\u20ac\u201d every teacher, every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=133\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Testing teachers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-29","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}