ACT: 'We Are a Plan B' for Common Assessments
The maker of the ACT college entrance exam offers itself as an alternative to common tests being designed by two federally funded consortia designing tests for the common standards. Read Full Post >
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May 22, 2013
May 21, 2013
Bad to Good and Good to Great
The charter movement had it right from the get-go: Each school would have its own "charter" spelling out the results that it would be responsible for achieving. Read Full Post >
May 20, 2013
Chiefs Group: No Moratorium on Common-Core Stakes
In a rebuttal to the AFT president's call for a moratorium on high-stakes consequences for the common core, Chiefs for Change calls for holding fast to accountability. Read Full Post >
May 20, 2013
Seattle Teachers' Test Boycott Pays Off
The Seattle school district announced that high schools in the city will no longer be required to administer the Measures of Academic Progress assessment—a computerized adaptive test teachers had refused to give earlier this year. Read Full Post >
May 17, 2013
40 States Probed Alleged Cheating on Tests, Federal Report Finds
A new federal study shows few states are untouched by cheating probes, and all are aware their testing systems are vulnerable to cheating. Read Full Post >
May 16, 2013
Problem vs. Solution: A Response
We need a diversity of attempted solutions;mistakes must be honored, not attacked. Read Full Post >
May 15, 2013
Can We Take a Tylenol® for the Madness?
We have endured the tests. Now we must plan for the reaction to the scores. Tisch and others should stand up with us and join us in navigating the turbulence caused by this change. Read Full Post >
May 15, 2013
There Is Only One Effective Teacher Evaluation
Teacher evaluations that are being perpetrated on teachers by politicians and reformers are wrong-headed. Peer Assistance and Review programs offer the best method that assure teacher quality. Read Full Post >
May 14, 2013
NAEP Faces Budget Ax: Social Studies Exams to Be Scaled Back
The National Assessment of Educational Progress in civics, history, and geography is being scaled back because of budget cuts. It will only be offered to 8th graders. Read Full Post >
May 14, 2013
And So Ends the Seattle Testing Boycott Saga—for Now
Seattle superintendent José Banda emailed the district with a plan of action for the MAP test that spawned a teacher boycott. Read Full Post >
