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Bruce D. Baker

July 10, 2012

More Thoughts on Charter Punditry & Declarations of Certainty

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Bruce D. Baker

July 9, 2012

How Much Does Federal Title I Funding Affect Fairness in State School Finance Systems?

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Bruce D. Baker

July 3, 2012

Friday Finance 101: What Can We Learn about Education Costs & Efficiency by Studying Existing Public Schools?

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Bruce D. Baker

July 2, 2012

Which States Screw the Largest Share of Low Income Children? Another Look at Funding Fairness

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Bruce D. Baker

June 25, 2012

Deconstructing Funding Fairness: Comments on the Release of Our Latest Report

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Bruce D. Baker

June 20, 2012

Five Ridiculously Reformy “Copy & Paste” Policies & Why They’re Misguided

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Bruce D. Baker

June 18, 2012

New Jersey Charter Data Roundup: A Look at the 2010-11 Report Cards

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Bruce D. Baker

June 11, 2012

The Commonwealth Triple-Screw: Special Education Funding & Charter School Payments in Pennsylvania

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Bruce D. Baker

June 5, 2012

America’s Most Screwed City Schools: Where are the Least Fairly Funded City Districts?

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Bruce D. Baker

June 4, 2012

Two Persistent Reformy Misrepresentations regarding VAM Estimates

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Bruce D. Baker

May 29, 2012

No Excuses! Really? Another Look at our NEPC Charter Spending Figures

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Bruce D. Baker

May 8, 2012

Follow Up on Why Publicness/Privateness of Charter Schools Matters

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Bruce D. Baker

May 7, 2012

Charter Schools Are… [Public? Private? Neither? Both?]

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Bruce D. Baker

May 3, 2012

If It’s Not Valid, Reliability Doesn’t Matter So Much! More on VAM-ing & SGP-ing Teacher Dismissal

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Bruce D. Baker

May 1, 2012

The Toxic Trifecta, Bad Measurement & Evolving Teacher Evaluation Policies

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Bruce D. Baker

April 24, 2012

Follow up on Reformy Logic in Connecticut

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Bruce D. Baker

April 10, 2012

The Principal’s Dilemma

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Bruce D. Baker

April 4, 2012

Firing Teachers Based on Bad (VAM) Versus Wrong (SGP) Measures of Effectiveness: Legal Note

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Bruce D. Baker

April 3, 2012

SB24 Won’t Solve CT’s Real Teacher Equity Problems

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Bruce D. Baker

March 27, 2012

Snapshots of Connecticut Charter School Data

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Bruce D. Baker

March 26, 2012

Revisiting NJOSA & the Lakewood Effect

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Bruce D. Baker

March 23, 2012

Amazing Graph Proves Poverty Doesn’t Matter!(?)

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Bruce D. Baker

March 2, 2012

About Those Dice… Ready, Set, Roll! on the VAM-ification of Tenure

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Bruce D. Baker

March 2, 2012

Seeking Practical Uses of the NYC VAM Data???

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Bruce D. Baker

February 29, 2012

Student Enrollments & State School Finance Policies

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Bruce D. Baker

February 27, 2012

Reformy Platitudes & Fact-Challenged Placards Won’t Get Connecticut Schools What They Really Need!

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Bruce D. Baker

February 23, 2012

Borrowing Wise Words from Those Truly Market-Based, Private Independent Schools…

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Bruce D. Baker

February 20, 2012

Beneath the Veil of Inadequate Cost Analyses: What Do Roland Fryer’s School Reform Studies Really Tell Us? (if anything)

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Bruce D. Baker

January 27, 2012

Jay Greene (Inadvertently?) Argues for a 23% Funding Increase for Texas Schools

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Bruce D. Baker

January 25, 2012

Misunderstanding & Misrepresenting the “Costs” & “Economics” of Online Learning

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Bruce D. Baker

January 16, 2012

The Comparability Distraction & the Real Funding Equity Issue

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Bruce D. Baker

December 2, 2011

The Wrong Thinking about Measuring Costs and Efficiency in Higher Education (and how to fix it!)

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Bruce D. Baker

November 20, 2011

Thoughts on Improving the School Funding Reform Act (SFRA) in NJ

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Bruce D. Baker

October 24, 2011

Rating Ed Schools by Student Outcome Data?

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Bruce D. Baker

October 3, 2011

Who Would Really Want to Spend More Than That? (Ed Next & Spending Preferences)

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Bruce D. Baker

August 7, 2011

Inexcusable Inequalities! This is NOT the Post Funding Equity Era!

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Bruce D. Baker

August 2, 2011

Private Choices, Public Policy & Other People’s Children

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Bruce D. Baker

July 10, 2011

Why Comparing NAEP Poverty Achievement Gaps Across States Doesn’t Work

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Bruce D. Baker

May 11, 2011

The Perils of Favoring Consistency over Validity: Are “bad” VAMS more “consistent” than better ones?

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Bruce D. Baker

April 27, 2011

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