Missouri top schools in math

user@domain.com — 2008-11-05T17:21:52-06:00

I looked at the median scale score instead of the number of proficient and advanced as I felt it was more representative of the spectrum of abilities including the advanced students.

What about the students outside St. Louis?

user@domain.com — 2008-10-29T12:52:08-05:00

While districts do have some reasons to compare themselves to other districts within the metropolitan area, they do need to realize the limitations.

Reporter asks Obama re NCLB

user@domain.com — 2008-10-18T19:02:16-05:00

Get outside! (Improve your science scores)

user@domain.com — 2008-04-15T16:55:41-05:00

Moving beyond the math wars

user@domain.com — 2008-04-10T19:44:34-05:00

Elite universities go low cost

user@domain.com — 2008-02-20T16:35:28-06:00

Wash U and Stanford have joined Harvard in loosening up the endowment pocketbooks to provide grants for students of middle-class families to attend for free or a least close to it.

Researching history at the library

user@domain.com — 2008-02-18T16:27:37-06:00

Students taking AP classes in Mo., or not

user@domain.com — 2008-02-15T22:57:59-06:00

Greening St. Louis Schools

user@domain.com — 2008-02-13T17:31:42-06:00

A Vision of K-12 Students Today

user@domain.com — 2008-02-12T13:56:47-06:00

Wash U involves multiple schools, depts. in KIPP sponsorship

user@domain.com — 2008-02-11T17:49:49-06:00

Come rain, SNOW, sleet, or shine, the Science Fair must go on!

user@domain.com — 2008-01-31T11:48:03-06:00

Trip to Seville? Ph.D.? Working on the bucket list

user@domain.com — 2008-01-29T22:36:43-06:00

Moneyball

user@domain.com — 2008-01-29T13:59:16-06:00

Context is partially external (in baseball, factors like ball park effects, weather, a humidor or not) but it's vastly internal (human players as individuals and as part of the team and their individual quirks and personal strengths and weaknesse

Passion, or lack thereof, in ed schools

user@domain.com — 2008-01-28T17:42:41-06:00

Unfortunately, most of them majored in ed because they 1) needed a fallback if they couldn't make money doing what they really wanted to do 2) they had to choose something 3) like teaching well enough but only plan on doing so a few years until they have children.

Missouri students write for their state assessment too!

user@domain.com — 2008-01-28T10:14:39-06:00

I thought it ironic, and showing of poor prep all around, that the state everyone kept referring to as one that uses open-ended questions, you know, actually having the kids write, was Massachusetts.

Can data improve my teaching?

user@domain.com — 2008-01-25T13:59:34-06:00

❝In stage-three schools, school leaders establish structures of accountability that ensure teachers regularly analyze student performance data, talk about it in functional units, and enact specific action plans at the classroom, team, grade, and school level.❞

A+ for school choice--private anyway

user@domain.com — 2008-01-22T20:22:17-06:00

SLPS has extra room, charter schools don't have room, and transitional money would make everyone more likely to sit down at the peace table at come up with a plan to help our kids.

MLK, Kiva and Natalie Portman

user@domain.com — 2008-01-21T11:42:23-06:00

Teachers can do research too!

user@domain.com — 2008-01-19T13:41:37-06:00

I understand wanting to use research-based curriculum changes, but the district is essentially telling its teachers that no matter how hard they work and how effective they are since they can't provide the large research basis that commercial suppliers can, they are not as important.

Length of contract affects salary

user@domain.com — 2008-01-17T17:05:38-06:00

Education builds green

user@domain.com — 2008-01-16T14:41:41-06:00

❝To a large extent, the push is coming from the ground up, fueled by students' passions and interests and enthusiasms," says Peter MacKeith, associate dean in the School of Architecture at Washington University in St.

Rhyme or reason to salary schedules?

user@domain.com — 2008-01-15T14:31:24-06:00

❝In fact, the salaries and career potential for teachers are remarkably flat: The average maximum salary that a teacher can earn is just 1.85 times the salary of a raw entrant, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, based on figures from the 2003-04 school year.❞

Debating at the Chase

user@domain.com — 2008-01-14T11:55:45-06:00

49th in teacher pay? Embarassing!

user@domain.com — 2008-01-11T11:49:13-06:00

Data Mining

user@domain.com — 2008-01-09T16:14:30-06:00

❝While such systems have the potential to yield rich information on differences that affect student learning, they also raise a thorny question: Might teachers be ranked, assigned, or fired on the basis of such data?❞

So many tech goodies! So little time!

user@domain.com — 2008-01-08T15:24:14-06:00

Can I have my kid's score, please?

user@domain.com — 2008-01-07T13:54:27-06:00

If parents aren't even given their own child's assessments and standardized test results, then any talk about increasing participation is just so much fluff, happy talk, can-we-get-some-money-out-of-you talk.

Daddy, can you work for Chrysler so I can go to Yale?

user@domain.com — 2008-01-03T13:29:58-06:00

In her blog post Poor Kids Have It Easy, EduWonkette blasted Michele Hernandez's Acing the College Application (reviewed in the WSJ) for saying that kids from poor or working class backgrounds have an easier time getting accepted into Ivy League schools.

Lessons from med school

user@domain.com — 2008-01-02T17:52:10-06:00

Truman University has experimented with requiring their education students to get their bachelor's in their content area or, for elementary ed students, in a related field like psychology and then get a master's in education.

Get them into the classroom

user@domain.com — 2007-12-31T12:03:56-06:00

While few of these young men will probably go into teaching, especially elementary, they probably will have more classroom experience than most elementary education majors before their student teaching semester.

Do we read or not?

user@domain.com — 2007-12-30T11:30:04-06:00

Getting "Slammed" by student teaching

user@domain.com — 2007-12-29T14:20:00-06:00

I happen to disagree that the theory is pointless, but I definitely agree that you get "slammed" when you student teach and believe that the theory would be more meaningful after you have started some teaching.

We're a great place to educate our kids, so sayeth Forbes

user@domain.com — 2007-12-27T15:42:22-06:00

I don't have time this Christmas vacation to do much digging as I am busy catching up with my reading and paying those library fines.

It's Report Card time!

user@domain.com — 2007-12-21T10:37:30-06:00

I am sure I will be mining these report cards for data for some time, but for today's sneak preview I thought I would provide a chart listing the St.

Life is all about ME, baby!

user@domain.com — 2007-12-19T10:56:03-06:00

Between being the new girl in town and late to the party, I'm begging off tagging others this time (per NYC Educator).

Zebra fish? It may have worked for her, but my daughter has something else in mind for the science fair

user@domain.com — 2007-12-19T08:56:57-06:00

Why go private? Income? Religion? Ivy League?

user@domain.com — 2007-12-18T15:43:34-06:00

I don’t know if Clayton’s numbers are related to the high number of people who walk or ride their bike to work, but I imagine Ladue’s high numbers are related to the two Ivy league feeder private schools within its borders.

White Flight? Let's look at those test scores

user@domain.com — 2007-12-13T18:19:22-06:00

Louis are a bit jaded on the whole AYP since even the wealthy districts can't meet all their targets, neither of these districts have numbers to brag about.

Mo bronze high schools don't have achievement gap; they just don't serve minority populations

user@domain.com — 2007-12-11T15:02:19-06:00

Sure their discrepancy numbers are only 3.5 in math and 9.8 in reading, but with only 7 African-American students in the high school (1.8%) and such low overall proficiency numbers, is it really a best school?

Zoooommmm!!!!! Changing our perspective

user@domain.com — 2007-12-11T14:09:59-06:00

❝Our focus is not what works for policy makers but what is most useful for readers, particularly parents, trying to judge the quality of their local schools and others that might be available to them.❞

But, but, why isn't MYYYYY school on the Best Schools List?

user@domain.com — 2007-12-09T15:12:21-06:00

I don't know how the numbers work that way, but those of us in flyover country are used to being overlooked, but we have excellent college prep public high schools too.

Barbie likes math!

user@domain.com — 2007-12-17T14:26:22-06:00

Ira Flatow, of NPR's Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, interviewed the coach and one of the team members in a segment on Women, Girls and Math.

Introduction

user@domain.com — 2007-12-09T15:12:15-06:00

In an effort to find another outlet for my thoughts on educational ideas besides my wonderful family, I've decided to start a blog, a place to voice my opinions about educational issues with a St.

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