Tag: Eric Lerum
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On Education and Poverty, and How We Talk About Them (Part 3b)
StudentsFirst Vice President Eric Lerum and I recently began a debate about approaches to teacher evaluation. During Part 2 of that debate, the conversation touched on the relationship between anti-poverty work and education reform. We resume that conversation below. Here were the relevant parts of our original exchange, in case…
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Cooks, Chefs, and Teachers: A Long-Form Debate on Evaluation (Part 3a)
StudentsFirst Vice President Eric Lerum and I have been debating teacher evaluation approaches since my blog post about why evaluating teachers based on student test scores is misguided and counterproductive. Our conversation began to touch on the relationship between anti-poverty activism and education reform conversations, a topic we plan to…
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Eric Lerum and I Debate Teacher Evaluation and the Role of Anti-Poverty Work (Part 2)
StudentsFirst Vice President Eric Lerum and I recently began debating the use of standardized test scores in high stakes decision-making. I argued in a recent blog post that we should instead evaluate teachers on what they directly control – their actions. Our conversation, which began to touch on additional interesting…
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StudentsFirst Vice President Eric Lerum and I Debate Accountability Measures (Part 1)
After my blog post on the problem with outcome-oriented teacher evaluations and school accountability measures, StudentsFirst Vice President Eric Lerum and I exchanged a few tweets about student outcomes and school inputs and decided to debate teacher and school accountability more thoroughly. We had a lengthy email conversation we agreed…
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