Teachers need fair employment and dismissal procedures or so-called tenure because so much concentration on high stakes testing has distorted the practice of teaching. Politicians need to assure good teachers that they will not be subjected to personal, political, arbitrary, and capricious decisions not to mention nepotism. Read Full Post >
Do we need tests that compare individual American students to their international peers? Read Full Post >
Achievement gaps persist by gender persist across the globe, a new study finds, with boys lagging in reading and girls lagging in math. Read Full Post >
Imagine 2,000 questions for 4th grade math that cover the entire scope of appropriate material from basic to advanced topics. Read Full Post >
In maintaining our fixation on reading and math achievement, what do we fail to see? A recent announcement of the test results of one school -- a school in which the author knew all 56 of the tested students -- prompted some reflection. Read Full Post >
There are two current storytelling efforts about two different schools that, if you're not careful, might feel like the American version of a tale of two cities. In reality, though, it's impossible to hear these two schools' stories and not see three clear implications for school reform going forward. Read Full Post >
At the Mission Hill school, teachers are empowered to decide what's best for their students. Would more schools be healthier places if more teachers were given similar latitude? Read Full Post >
It's time that courts acknowledge the realities of testing. Read Full Post >
What lessons can be learned from Kentucky's assessment of the Common Core? Read Full Post >
During the first year of stricter test-security measures in the 146,000-student Philadelphia school district, the district's handling of new allegations of cheating in one Philadelphia school was "baffling", according to WHYY/NewsWorks and the Philadelphia Public School Notebook. Read Full Post >
