Re-Learning What We 'Know'
Taking children's parents seriously as their child's first teacher, requires collaboration not mandates. Read Full Post >
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October 20, 2011
October 18, 2011
If You Believe in Miracles, Don't Read This
But as long as public officials insist on making test scores the measure of teacher quality and school success, then their claims should be closely scrutinized using the metrics that they themselves have made the coin of the realm. Many of the schools that politicians hail as successes have records no different from other schools that the politicians are closing. Read Full Post >
October 17, 2011
N.Y. Education Department Proposes $2 Million to Curb Cheating
The money would be spent on a pilot program to develop computer-based tests and search some test sheets for suspicious erasures. Read Full Post >
October 13, 2011
Test Result: No School for Student with Asperger Syndrome
After the mother of a South Carolina student with Asperger syndrome kept him from taking the state's annual exams last school year, his charter school said he can no longer be a student at their school. Read Full Post >
October 13, 2011
UPDATED: NCLB Waivers for States That Decline Common Standards, Tests?
Three of those intending to seek waivers from No Child Left Behind have not adopted common standards or signed up to work on common tests, two key areas of judgment in the waiver process. Read Full Post >
October 11, 2011
Price of ESEA Bill Too Steep for Students With Disabilities?
Some fear the proposed bill reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, would, if passed, undo years of progress regarding students with disabilities. Read Full Post >
October 11, 2011
South Korea Cracks Down on Late-Night Tutoring
Well, here's one educational problem we probably don't have to worry about in the U.S.: Were you aware that the South Korean government is now conducting late-nights raids to enforce a new curfew on after-hours tutoring operations? The raids, Amanda Ripley reports in a fascinating article for Time... Read Full Post >
October 11, 2011
What Can We Learn From Finland?
Finland rightly deserves attention today as a nation that treats its children as a precious resource and that honors the adults who make education their passion and their career. Read Full Post >
October 04, 2011
Testing, No Testing, Too Much Testing
How should students with disabilities be tested? Or should they be? These are questions with many answers: It depends on whom you ask. Read Full Post >
October 04, 2011
Study: State Test Scores Lag at High School Level
A new study of state tests scores finds that gains are slower at the high school level than at the 4th or 8th grade levels. Read Full Post >
