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Gates Foundation — Release the MET Results
A sketch of the $500 million new Gates Foundation headquarters Bill and Melinda Gates mentioned again in the Wall Street Journal the Measuring Effective Teachers (MET) project that their foundation is...
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Gates Responds
Steve Cantrell, a senior researcher at Gates, sent me an email last night in response to my post from yesterday asking for the MET results to be released. He said that I was right in suggesting that...
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How the Gates Foundation Spins its Research
The Gates Foundation has released the next installment of reports in their Measuring Effective Teachers Project. When the last report was released, I found myself in a tussle with the Gates folks and...
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Anticipating Responses from Gates
Over the weekend I posted about how I thought the Gates Foundation was spinning the results of their Measuring Effective Teachers Project to suggest that the combination of student achievement gains,...
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Gates, the Bizarro Foundation
Comic book geeks are familiar with Bizarro World, a place where everything is the opposite of what it is in the normal world. In Bizarro World, people would abandon a policy strongly supported by...
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Gates Goes Wild
Gates researchers using science to enhance student learning Even a blind squirrel occasionally finds an acorn. Well, Diane Ravitch, Susan Ohanion, Leonie Haimson, and their tinfoil hat crew have...
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Gates Gets Groovy, Invests in Mood Rings
Building on their earlier $1.4 million investment in bracelets to measure skin conductivity (sweating) as a proxy for student engagement, the Gates Foundation has decided to embark on a multi-million...
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Understanding the Gates Foundation’s Measuring Effective Teachers Project
If I were running a school I’d probably want to evaluate teachers using a mixture of student test score gains, classroom observations, and feedback from parents, students, and other staff. But I...
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What Success Would Have Looked Like
Yesterday I described the Gates Foundation’s Measuring Effective Teachers (MET) project as “an expensive flop.” To grasp just what a flop the project was, it’s important to consider what success...
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