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Skrc Chattanooga area news to start your day Wednesday, August 5
NASHVILLE -- Ever since the advent of the federal Race to the Top program, data has played an increasing role in evaluating teacher performance with value-added test scores measuring educators impact on student achievement in Tennessee and other states.But a newly released multi-state study by Vanderbilt University researchers finds that simply observing teachers in a classroom rather than value-added testing is what really drives principals decisions on hiring, firing, pay and other things.And in the view of principals, those observations actually may be more reliable than the v yeezy slide alue-added measurements. Our data suggest that teacher observations, associated evidence and rubric scoring are becoming the main driver of principals data use regarding teaching effectiveness and human-capital decisions in districts that have invested in these systems, said research team leader Ellen Goldring, Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Education Policy and Leadership at Vandy.As a result, Goldring said in a Vanderbilt news release, we believe that as these rigorous, observation-focused evaluation systems develop, value-added measures are playing a less exclusive role in principals human-capital decision-making, despite policy mandates that suggest otherwise. In the study, principa adidas originals forum ls and central office personnel were surveyed or interviewed in six urban school hoka districts in five states -- Tennessee Nashville and Memphis ; Maryland Baltimore ; Colorado Denver ; Florida Hills Ukme Hamilton County Schools to expand summer learning program
SUMMERVILLE, Ga. - A drive through Summerville s Commerce Street, with its neoclassical revival courthouse and colonial revival post office, takes visitors back to small-town America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Community stanley cup members want to make sure it s recognized and they hope, kept that way.In June, the Summerville Commercial Historic District was listed in the Georgia Register of Historic Places and is expected to join the national list by the end of the year. There s a section of Summerville in this district identified as unique, said Nell Farrar with the Summerville Better Hometown Program, which co-sponsored the nomination. What we hope to do by identifying this historic district is preserve this somewhat-modest small town in North Georgia, she said. If we do not preserve it, it will become Generica - generic America. About 30 people met Thursday with state Historic Preservation Division officials stanley flask to discuss what it would mean to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places.They gathered at the 1918 depot, which now houses the Chattooga County Historical Society. National Register designation identifies significant historic properties that can be taken into account in a broad range of preservation and development activities, said Gretchen Brock, National Register and survey program manager for the Historic Preservation Division, stanley kubek part of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.But even with the designation, property owners can t be told wha
NASHVILLE -- Ever since the advent of the federal Race to the Top program, data has played an increasing role in evaluating teacher performance with value-added test scores measuring educators impact on student achievement in Tennessee and other states.But a newly released multi-state study by Vanderbilt University researchers finds that simply observing teachers in a classroom rather than value-added testing is what really drives principals decisions on hiring, firing, pay and other things.And in the view of principals, those observations actually may be more reliable than the v yeezy slide alue-added measurements. Our data suggest that teacher observations, associated evidence and rubric scoring are becoming the main driver of principals data use regarding teaching effectiveness and human-capital decisions in districts that have invested in these systems, said research team leader Ellen Goldring, Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Education Policy and Leadership at Vandy.As a result, Goldring said in a Vanderbilt news release, we believe that as these rigorous, observation-focused evaluation systems develop, value-added measures are playing a less exclusive role in principals human-capital decision-making, despite policy mandates that suggest otherwise. In the study, principa adidas originals forum ls and central office personnel were surveyed or interviewed in six urban school hoka districts in five states -- Tennessee Nashville and Memphis ; Maryland Baltimore ; Colorado Denver ; Florida Hills Ukme Hamilton County Schools to expand summer learning program
SUMMERVILLE, Ga. - A drive through Summerville s Commerce Street, with its neoclassical revival courthouse and colonial revival post office, takes visitors back to small-town America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Community stanley cup members want to make sure it s recognized and they hope, kept that way.In June, the Summerville Commercial Historic District was listed in the Georgia Register of Historic Places and is expected to join the national list by the end of the year. There s a section of Summerville in this district identified as unique, said Nell Farrar with the Summerville Better Hometown Program, which co-sponsored the nomination. What we hope to do by identifying this historic district is preserve this somewhat-modest small town in North Georgia, she said. If we do not preserve it, it will become Generica - generic America. About 30 people met Thursday with state Historic Preservation Division officials stanley flask to discuss what it would mean to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places.They gathered at the 1918 depot, which now houses the Chattooga County Historical Society. National Register designation identifies significant historic properties that can be taken into account in a broad range of preservation and development activities, said Gretchen Brock, National Register and survey program manager for the Historic Preservation Division, stanley kubek part of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.But even with the designation, property owners can t be told wha
