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Houston as an educational research hub?
The real question is how long Terry Grier will last in Houston. He's had 8 superintendencies in 25 years, some lasting just one year.
Maybe the first thing they can research is whether teachers' value-added test scores work.
by Ericka Mellon
Houston ISD Superintendent Terry Grier said today that he wants to create a top-notch research and innovation department — perhaps partnering with a local college — to study what works and what doesn't in education. He proposed securing private funding to lure a "world-renowned researcher" who could work for HISD and hold a professorship at a university, ideally in Houston but definitely in Texas.
"Think about it," Grier said. "We're sitting right here in Houston. M.D. Anderson is the biggest cancer institute in the world. We have all kinds of energy and petroleum companies that are constantly doing research around trying to find alternative fuels. We are the hub of a research center here in Houston that I think would rival that of any place in the world. I'd like to see us have a research center tied to our school system that helps us measure what works — whether it's computer software programs or a literacy reading program in a particular school or whether it's which algebra books get the best results from kids."
Grier said he plans to talk about the idea Friday during his first State of the Schools speech. He didn't reveal other talking points. But I suspect he'll make few, if any, major announcements and will mostly recap of what he's already done in his five months on the job: put graduation coaches and credit-recovery computer labs in the high schools, abandoned the regional superintendent structure, and made teachers' value-added test scores a factor in job evaluations and contract decisions.
— Ericka Mellon
Houston Chronicle SchoolZone blog
2010-02-16
http://blogs.chron.com/schoolzone/2010/02/houston_as_an_educational_rese.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+houstonchroni
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