All Of The Above Podcast

This Week: A fascinating article in The Progressive got Manuel and Jeff talking about some of our predictions of what’s to come once we have fresh, new state test scores this spring. The learning loss hawks are circling, and once the data is public and we’re able to quantify just how deficient and underperforming all of the kids are, and how exacerbated the equity gaps are, which we’ve always known have been there, what will come for our accountability systems?  Will we harken back to the NCLB, Race to the Top era of value added metrics, and high stake testing based teacher evaluations?  A working paper from the Annenberg Institute at Brown University shows little to no effect of the practices of that era, but will policy makers be wise enough, soon enough, to avoid repeating the sins of the past?  And what should we do instead? Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered.