BPS releases per-school teacher evaluation results

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!!

I had the honor of meeting

By Anon42
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

Looks like they might have to bus some teachers.....

By Pete Nice
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.

evaluate the evaluators

By doreian
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

About evaluating the evaluators

By Nancy
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;

Students that get into , and

By kvn
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.

Teacher who teach

By Kathode
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.

A bit of a misperception

By adamg
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.

Adam, my

By Kathode
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.

Good point

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

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

I'd double check the alumni donation factor.....

By Pete Nice
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.

There are a lot of

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

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

Well...

By bounce
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=20...)

With the exception of Ritchie

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

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

Genius!

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

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

let me break it down for everyone

By anon
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.

Test scores (MCAS) only

By anon
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.

BPS releases per-school teacher evaluation results

Comments

Why do they separate the

No just

Remedial History

Were you here during busing?

Were you even born before busing?

Be nice now ,if you were