Kentucky School News and Commentary

• Build a Value-Added Assessment System for P-12 Before Moving on to Teacher Prep Institutions

  "A key assumption of using test scores to judge teachers is that students are randomly assigned, first, to schools, and, second, to classes. Neither is true."
  Recently, there has been increased talk of holding teacher preparation institutions accountable for the performance of Kentucky teachers - in effect holding colleges [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:15am EST
  

• Does CNN's Anderson Cooper Shape His News?

  Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday was supposed to be on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 the other night.
  
  Then, he wasn't.
  
  Here's the way his non-appearance rolled out, according to Holliday.
  
  This from Commissioner Holliday's Fast Five for Friday email:
  
  
  

  Anderson Cooper [...]

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:33am EST
  

• Commissioner Contemplations

  Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday is still on the road; meeting, greeting, getting to know more and more Kentuckians.
  
  Say what you will, but I think most Kentucky political observers will tell you that this is a necessary component of effective advocacy in the commonwealth. So much depends on [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:46am EST