I'm not sure, I hear Kermit is a real stickler when it comes to cluster-robust standard errors...

If observational ratings were going to improve aggregate teacher quality (or help us identify who our effective teachers are) they would have done so by now.

Value-added is imperfect, only available for a subset of teachers, and vastly superior to any other measure of teacher quality I'm aware of.

"teachers with higher-achieving and less disruptive students...receive systematically higher performance ratings...A policy that adjusts evaluator scores for classroom characteristics, analogous to value-added models, increases the relative ranking of Black teachers by 8 percentage points."

Also, never assume that people know just because it seems obvious to you

2025 - 11 students were shot and 2 died on a Saturday afternoon at the University I work at.

I have no solutions and I don't understand the causes. But I know that we cannot see the fear our children are taught to live with and do nothing to protect them.

What future are we building if we do?

1999 - I learned to hide under my desk if "Monsignor Selmack" was called to the office.

2008 - A student sneaking a load shotgun in during lunch was stopped by a construction worker.

2018 - Armed police cleared the school I taught at due to threats of an active shooter.

I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.

There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.

Spread the word.

www.ribc.org/donate-blood/