Did a local or
even national evaluation publication, one that's credible and really pulls together the data, anoint you as number one?
Not exact matches
DB: However one interprets the
evaluations of demonstration projects like the Perry Preschool and Abecedarian, the unavoidable conclusion is that the measured impacts of three
national programs that seek to implement their approach — Head Start, Early Head Start, and
Even Start — have been tragically «disappointing,» the word used by most objective observers.
In the latter years of the 20th century, the federal government not only became far more involved in civil rights, surveillance of behavior and misbehavior on educational sites, and financing of education for the less wealthy; in conjunction with the governors of many states, the federal government also played a significant role in testing of students,
evaluation of progress toward
national educational goals, and
even support for the creation and
evaluation of curricula and pedagogical approaches, both live and online.
Third
National Even Start
Evaluation: Program Impacts and Implications for Improvement (2003).
Even the biggest
national supporters of value - added
evaluations concede to caveats: Sufficient data exist for only about 20 percent of teachers nationwide to be given value - added scores.
Jacobson has
even suggested that he might take legal action against NOAA scientist Christopher Clack and twenty coauthors whose critical
evaluation of his work was published by the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences in June.