Texas Parents Join Forces to Reduce Testing
A parents' group called Texans Advocating for Meaningful Student Assessment is working to reduce the number of mandatory exit tests in Texas from 15 to three. Read Full Post >
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April 02, 2013
April 02, 2013
Trying to Understand the KIPP Approach
Would KIPP's founders and leaders argue that it would be a good experience for all kids or only for "certain types"? Read Full Post >
April 02, 2013
Teachers Who Cheat Go to Jail
The Atlanta scandal on teachers and administrators cheating on standardized testing has rocked the teaching profession. A closer look should examine this complex problem and changes need to be made. Read Full Post >
March 29, 2013
Dozens Protest New Dallas Principal Evaluations
Community members protested Dallas's new principal evaluation system at district headquarters. Read Full Post >
March 27, 2013
States Can Afford Better Tests by Restructuring Costs, Study Says
States can make better assessments possible by shifting testing dollars and using technology and teachers to score tests, says a new report. Read Full Post >
March 27, 2013
Should Common Assessments Use Computers to Score Writing?
The two federally funded groups designing tests for the common standards are awaiting feedback from pilot and field testing before making the decision. Read Full Post >
March 27, 2013
Common-Assessment Groups to Undergo New Federal Review Process
The review will focus on item and task development and on how the two testing consortia will validate assessment results. Read Full Post >
March 27, 2013
'Why Do We Teach?'
I came into education assuming that our task was and always had been to produce a learned, thoughtful, and tenacious "ruling class." Read Full Post >
March 25, 2013
Teacher: Give Me Testing Data That Make Sense
An Indianapolis high school English teacher adds her voice to the growing chorus of educators speaking out against what they see as extraneous and unreliable benchmarking assessments. Read Full Post >
March 23, 2013
Can't We Pay Our Best Teachers More?
Certainly overall salaries of teachers are held down by the failure to recognize that some teachers are more effective than others. Read Full Post >
