Guest post by Zac Chase In his essay "I - Thou - It," David Hawkins describes the triangular relationship between the teacher, the student and the content of learning. He refers to that final piece as the "It" of education -- the larger themes of a unit and the key principles a school espouses and ... Read Full Post >
Test results from Texas and Florida released in early June show flat results on many tests, but improvement on some. Read Full Post >
The nation's most ELL-rich school district continues to roll out its latest plan to raise achievement for students who are still learning English. Read Full Post >
A pair of measures introduced in Congress encourage the use of "adaptive" testing, exams that respond to student answers to gauge the performance level. Read Full Post >
More schools would be held accountable for the performance of English-learners under the provisions of a bill to reauthorize the federal education law. Read Full Post >
A group designing tests to go with the common-core online assessments has released practice tests for students, teachers, and parents. Read Full Post >
At the Mission Hill School in Boston, teachers decide which ways to assess their students, and why. Educator Kim Farris-Berg imagines what it would like like if all teachers across the country were similarly trusted. Read Full Post >
Marc Tucker argues that the country is very unlikely to match the performance of the top-performing countries without major changes to its system of education governance. Read Full Post >
A bill from a Texas senator would create a special state-run district to take over low-performing schools. Read Full Post >
Schools are awash in data, but their tech systems lack "interoperability," or the ability to work together, a new report concludes. Read Full Post >
