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Very interesting idea to put this on GitHub. As a side, I think there's room in the market for a company that builds a place for companies to version control their manuals. I've se…

For anyone who enjoyed this, a lot of these ideas were really well discussed a few years back in Neil Postman's "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" (1969) and John Dewey's "Democra…

I agree, especially in regards to knowing where to improve. But a bigger question is what do we consider effectiveness? Do higher scores on math tests mean a school is more effecti…

I agree with a lot of what you are saying. I agree that standardized or even blind testing is probably a much fairer way to evaluate. There is a reason scientific research uses dou…

I couldn't agree with this thread more. "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" by Neil Postman is a wonderful read that addresses how our obsession with grades, courses and syllabi is…

There are numerous options. First you could use more evaluative criteria. This is how most knowledge workers are evaluated in most modern startups. Unless you work on sales, you ar…

Why do you need to compare districts and schools across a state in the first place?

It’s still baffling to me how much emphasis we still place on test scores.