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lout to help abolish it from north carolina i have read a lot about vam both inside and outside of class and i agree with thornton kohn ravitch and every other critic that it is unfair invalid and unreliable calling vam value added is a misnomer and a cynical joke there is nothing of value added to the evaluation process if the instrument used is unfair invalid and unreliable how can a teacher be off the charts amazing one year and off the charts dismal the next year the better question is how come a teacher is punished for the characteristics of his or her students the value added measurements over which he or she has zero control a teacher cannot choose the composition of his or her students i have no objection to evaluation as a concept in fact i embrace it i cannot know what i am doing right and fix what i am doing wrong without feedback however i do have a problem with being held accountable for things that are out of my control such as that proverbial elephant in the room poverty educational researchers are well aware of the adverse effects that poverty can have on a child s educational success berliner 2005 grodsky warren felts 2008 kohn 2000 stern 2014 there is no question that western north carolina has a high poverty rate in some counties and communities in this region all students are given free or reduced lunch regardless of need because there are so many needy kids in that district or school spencer 2015 to the proponents of vam answer me this what regression algorithm can turn a white rural poor kid from wnc and from a single parent home whose mother works three part time jobs and can only keep the lights on every other month into a white suburban upper middle class kid from new england from a two parent home whose father has one full time job with benefits and that child has never missed a meal or whose parents never had to decide between bringing that child to the doctor or going to work the bottom line is that children are not standardized they are not interchangeable cogs in a machine nor are they blank slates they are individual human beings who each bring their unique life stories with them to class every day what regression algorithm can distill out every mitigating circumstance in a child s life and education and determine how his or her experience in my classroom affected that child s learning i do not think that even the wizard of oz can answer that question references berliner d c 2005 july 29 our impoverished view of educational reform teachers college record 1 64 grodsky e warren j r felts e 2008 testing and social stratification in american education annual review of sociology 34 385 404 retrieved october 10 2015 from http www jstor org stable 29737796 kohn a 2000 september 27 standardized testing and its victims retrieved from http www alfiekohn org article standardized testing victims print pdf spencer a 2015 october 22 praxis project interview a l demarco interviewer stern g 2014 april 12 education analyst diane ravitch tests punish out of the box thinkers retrieved from http www lohud com story news education 2014 04 11 ravitch speaks briarcliff 7597245 thornton h j 2014 winter middle level teacher quality in the midst of the rush to common core what do principals think of test based teacher quality north carolina middle school association journal 28 1 1 13 posted by amy d at 5 16 am no comments labels barack obama common core disaster education nclb north carolina public school standardized testing teacher evaluation vam wednesday september 04 2013 awards and accolades posted by amy d at 1 26 am no comments saturday june 01 2013 academic achievement posted by amy d at 4 09 am no comments tuesday may 21 2013 old habits die hard the legacy of chernobyl almost thirty years later the impact of the chernobyl disaster is still felt children are still being born with cancer and other birth defects survivors are still succumbing to radiation induced cancers cities and towns are still abandoned the site itself and the surrounding areas are still hot with radiation some estimates are that the area will continue to be unsafe for human habitation for millennia some of the radioactive isotopes have a half life of 24 000 years ludwig 2011 it is difficult to fathom how 14 seconds can have an impact for eons human achievement can turn to human destruction in a moment the people of ukraine and belarus relive that moment daily their ailments remind them their children s and grandchildren s ailments remind them the soviet system was one of the most destructive regimes in human history stalin s reign of terror alone killed between 20 and 60 million people depending on the source consulted one of his infamous quotes was that he would willingly sacrifice 49 per cent if he could save the 51 per cent that is save the revolution overy 2004 this attitude prevailed even after his death and the formal repudiation of him and his policies by his successor nikita khrushchev the soviets blindly pursued production at all costs to the detriment of the soviet people quantity was valued far above quality production targets had to be met regardless of the impact on the land environment or the people themselves all of this was in pursuit of a flawed ideology this attitude even permeated the soviet nuclear sector the cold war fostered competition between the ussr and the usa this competition and the ruthless nature of internal soviet politics fostered a climate of corruption and obfuscation this very climate directly contributed to the chernobyl disaster the rbmk reactor design was known to have 27 different flaws but was produced anyway despite the known defects this type of reactor was installed at chernobyl and other sites ludwig 2011 sadly despite the collapse of the soviet union russia still has not improved much beyond its past its infrastructure is old and decrepit most of it is soviet era vintage russia s government is still corrupt and standards and regulations are not on par with the rest of europe there is still mistrust of the government by the people and according to some sources the putin government shares similarities with the soviet regimes of yore particularly when it comes to personal freedom freedom of the press and glasnost government transparency parts of russia are still some of the most contaminated places on earth although the russian government is trying to clean up after its past there is still more to be done they are still reluctant to seek international help unless they are desperate for assistance for example when the submarine kursk sank they initially refused to let british and american rescue vessels attempt to rescue the trapped sailors after much delay divers from britain and norway were able to assist in the rescue efforts however rescue turned to recovery because by this point it was too late for the kursk sailors barany 2004 dodds 2003 they need to swallow their national pride and put their people ahead of their egos references barany z 2004 summer the tragedy of the kursk crisis management in putin s russia government opposition 39 3 476 503 dodds k 2003 cold war geopolitics in j agnew k mitchell g toal eds a companion to political geography pp 204 218 malden massachusetts blackwell publishing ltd ludwig g 2011 the long shadow of chernobyl retrieved may 20 2013 from thelongshadowofchernobyl com http www longshadowofchernobyl com overy r 2004 the dictators new york w w norton posted by amy d at 5 03 am no comments labels belarus cccp chernobyl cold war disaster glasnost kursk nuclear putin russia soviet union stalin submarine ukraine ussr monday september 20 2010 sdc10083 my 10 year old daughter made this please subscribe to her youtube channel thanks posted by amy d at 4 09 am no comments saturday june 05 2010 the dumbing down of english i hate the internet because any moron who can t spell can publish something three factors have contributed to the dumbing down of the english language public schools making literacy the ability to understand english at the most basic level the goal rather than mastery of the english language the obsession with catering to the lowest common denominator and the information age i am obsessed with proper spelling and grammar since first grade i ve been an excellent speller after i had spelled the word said incorrectly on a spelling test i was bound and determined to become a proficient speller in 3rd grade it came down to me and another girl we tied the teacher could not stump either of us with 6th grade words she just gave up and declared us both winners in 5th grade i ended up skipping the 5th grade spelling level and acing the 6th grade one i m an excellent speller in french too which is not my native language english is posted by amy d at 11 12 pm 1 comment labels english internet public school spelling an open letter to misanthropic environmentalists this comment was deemed spam by the nazis at mnn the mother nature network i sent them an e mail and i am waiting for a reply some of the comments on that site were common sense and conservative so i may not have been blocked for my opinion but we shall see dear enviro nazi so is your ultimate solution for every human to commit suicide do reports of people being killed give you a warm and fuzzy feeling is your mantra save the animals planet kill the humans you and other enviro nazis like you would rather see annihilation of the human race than to see one animal or plant even slightly distressed you preach annihilation until your own life was threatened then you d change your tune if the world is so over populated which population should be eliminated first maybe it ought to be all of the enviro nazis and moonbats but the real answer is all human life is sacred so no human should have to go first environmentalism should be about stewardship not self righteousness or destruction of the human race we need to take care of what god has given us humans are not the only creatures that impact the environment beavers kill trees and flood areas with their dams gypsy moth caterpillars kill trees by eating their leaves animal waste is just as toxic as human waste unchecked animal populations can wreak havoc on an eco system the green movement is self defeating how much more money and energy does it take to produce one green item versus a conventional one green items tend to cost much more and are much less effective gaia worship is not going to get you into heaven only through christ can man get to heaven love god fearing conservative posted by amy d at 7 17 pm no comments labels moonbats tuesday january 27 2009 boehner watch bho bi partisanship i have been following john boehner since october and he has said some interesting things lately he says that conservatives republicans should not wish for bho s failure because bho needs to succeed in order for america to succeed in a way he is right let me just say this i do not want bho s liberal ideas to work but if republicans can somehow come up with a better plan and bho likes it bho can compel congress especially the house to consider it by forcing the dems hand no one about to seek re election is going to want to be seen as undermining the president the republicans can play politics by going over bella s head bho is already willing to meet with congressional republicans if he continues this trend throughout his presidency and the gop continues to produce better plans and ideas the gop caucus may have its say yet if boehner co play their cards right they can use bho s bipartisanship and willingness to be all things to all people agains the dems however i do realise that bella pelosi has imposed rules that will make it extremely difficult for republicans to make their voices heard but where there is a will there is a way and bho may be doing all of this bi partisan posturing for show i am optimistic but skeptical i shall keep my eyes and ears open also we have to realise that there will be some things that bho does that we may like they may be few and far between but they will be there we can t suffer bho derangement syndrome like the libs did with bush as fun as it may sound two wrongs still do not make a right my whole point is this like john boehner has said if it is good for the country then i am for it posted by amy d at 12 02 am 2 comments labels barack obama conservatives democrats john boehner liberals nancy pelosi republicans older posts home subscribe to posts atom deux centimes on twitter deux centimes on twitter follow me on twitter subscribe to posts atom posts all comments atom all comments about me amy d my name is amy and i have a passion for history and education i have a bachelor s degree in history from southern new hampshire university and i am currently working toward earning my graduate certificate in middle school teaching from appalachian state university and hope to start teaching middle school social studies sometime next school year view my complete profile blog 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