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BPS releases per-school teacher evaluation results

By adamg on Wed, 11/20/2013 - 10:38pm

Analysis and the report itself.

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By anon on Wed, 11/20/2013 - 11:19pm.

Why do they separate the teachers by race ?
They do it with students evaluations as well..public schools seem obsessed with race.

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By anon on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 8:13am.

The Libs who fought for forced bussing.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 10:34am.

I don't think you understand how that whole "busing" thing happened.

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By anon on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 12:09pm.

Or were you out riding your bike around Haight-Ashbury?

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By adamg on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 12:24pm.

Or were you one of those people throwing rocks at buses?

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By kvn on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 1:17pm.

Be nice now ,if you were around as it unfolded, it was an emotional time. It disrupted lives and neighborhoods , and the whole thing just made pawns out of the children. In my view , it imploded the school system and diluted the quality of education. It was a bullshit intelligentsia program . And so much for buying a three- decker or three in Boston at that time too. It didnt work!!

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By Anon42 on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 4:47pm.

I had the honor of meeting Paul Parks at a city archives talk on busing. As one of the 2 people who started the lawsuit that resulted in busing he reminded us that the suit was about school equity. He was not looking for integration and we are still far away from equity

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By Pete Nice on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 5:38am.

From Boston Latin to East Boston High.. (Latin has 18% of its teachers at a exemplary level compared to East Boston's 1%).

I'm sure the test scores reflect similar numbers.

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By doreian on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 8:28am.

remember that often the teacher evaluations tell more about the person who is doing the evaluation. There are good, bad, and fair teachers in all schools. However, please remember that there has been a lacking oversight of the principals handling the evaluations.

Here are three recent examples:
credit-card fraud
http://www.universalhub.com/2013/another-boston-headmaster-legal-trouble

domestic abuse
http://www.universalhub.com/2012/report-obryant-headmaster-withdraws-running-memphi

plagiarizing
http://www.universalhub.com/2013/principal-was-plagiarist

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By Nancy on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 12:28pm.

I thought this bullet point was very perceptive

•A few lower-performing schools marked nearly all of their educators as "exemplary" or "proficient." While this could be because some of these schools have invested in building strong staffs, it may also be a signal that a few schools are still not conducting robust evaluations;

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By kvn on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 8:34am.

Students that get into , and can remain in, the Latin School , are there to learn. The environment is conducive to excelling. Sumus Primi means something there.

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By Kathode on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 9:37am.

the harder to reach kids in non-exam schools and who have fewer resources available to them have a tougher job, I would say. And hopefully, they are getting enough support in their jobs from their principals.

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By adamg on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 9:49am.

Not to take away from the tough job faced by teachers in non-exam schools, but Boston Latin doesn't get more resources from the city than other schools.The kids there use the same old textbooks as everybody else.

Conflict of interest note: Kidlet's a BLS student.

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By Kathode on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 10:24am.

older son is at BLS too. But they are able to use the funds they raise from alumni to provide all those wonderful things (music, library, instruments, etc...) that the kids have access to.

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By adamg on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 10:29am.

Yes, BLS is blessed with something other schools don't have: Wealthy alumni with money to donate.

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By Pete Nice on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 10:32am.

I remember reading once how a Boston Latin alum wanted to donate something specific to the School and was denied because public school donations/fundraisers could not be school specific. I can't remember off hand what it was but it was within the last 5 years.

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By Kathode on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 11:41am.

BLS alumni whose donations help support extra staff, services, buses, lessons, you name it.

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By bounce on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 7:13pm.

You can donate money to the Boston Latin School Association , which is, technically, different from the school.
(https://6992.thankyou4caring.org/, and where that money is going: http://www.bls.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=203829&type=d&pREC_ID=40...)

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By kvn on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 1:18pm.

With the exception of Ritchie's First steps from the 1930's.............

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By anon on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 10:11am.

So instead of having a few good schools lets make them all mediocre.

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By anon on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 12:40pm.

exemplary = principal's pet
proficient = good to extremely good
needs improvement = teachers in the first few years of their career
unsatisfactory = teachers who have been bounced around the system because principals don't want to make the effort to fire them.

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By anon on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 9:18pm.

Test scores (MCAS) only describe what kids know and can do. And that is all. Period. It's scientific fact. They don't tell us much about the quality of teaching. The new evaluation system doesn't tell us much about the quality of teaching either. Yet. Hopefully with time it will improve and also improve teacher quality, but in its first year the new system doesn't tell us much that is accurate. Sorry to burst everyone's bubble.

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