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• in Family
  School Today is a Race To Nowhere
  Too much homework and lack of sleep leave kids of today in a race to nowhere. Documentary chronicles education culture
  by idontgetit / on Sep 4, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “standardized testing”

 

• With field tests approaching, parents are reprising protests

  
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  A group of parents and teachers are once again preparing to keep their children home on testing day, this time when their schools will administer “field” tests, which are scheduled to take place early June in over a thousand elementary and middle schools across the city. Field testing allows test makers to ...
  3 days ago

• When Will Our Passion Boil Over?

  
  Teaching in the Middle — Authority: 466
  Teachers, when will we stop keeping our collective heads down, taking whatever new program or idea or “innovation” is put in front of us quietly, without a whimper? When will our passion for our students and our profession boil over? When will everyone around us realize that we are the reason that any person in ...
  4 days ago

• A Differentiated Supervision Model

  
  Teaching in the Middle — Authority: 466
  One of the most difficult things to do is to evaluate the performance of a teacher.  It is often argued that teachers should be judged based on the performance of their students, much like the coach of a professional football team is judged on the performance of his team, or how an employee in the corporate world ...
  4 days ago

• The Choice Blog: SAT Scores Invalidated Because Proctors Were Inattentive, Report Finds

  
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  An auditor reportedly found several serious violations with the administration of an SAT exam at a Brooklyn school, where the scores of nearly 200 students were invalidated.
  5 days ago

• The mission of community colleges is under siege

  
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  Rick Diguette teaches English at a local college. He is also a great op-ed writer. Here is a new piece by him. By Rick Diguette At the large community college where I teach, we face challenges that go to the heart of our mission as a gateway institution of higher education. Although student needs have remained ...
  6 days ago

• Another story about parents and education cuts

  
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  I really want to believe that there’s an uprising in the works and that the Lege could be a very different place for the better next year, but I’m reserving judgment on that for now. Deep cuts in school funding approved by the Texas Legislature last summer could energize angry parents in a way similar to how ...
  1 week ago

• CitySquare Hosts Screening of the Documentary Race to Nowhere

  
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  On March 10, at 7:15 pm, CitySquare will host a free screening of the documentary, Race to Nowhere. The screening will be held at Dallas Angelika Theater, 5321 Mockingbird Lane. Race to Nowhere speaks to the toll high stakes standardized testing and the pressure to be successful is taking on the lives of students, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pineapplegate

  
  Teaching in the Middle — Authority: 466
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  3 weeks ago

• CitySquare Screens the Documentary Race to the Nowhere

  
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  3 weeks ago

• Testing School

  
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  A brief conversation during a planning meeting at one of the three new schools our district will open next fall. Several people bemoaning that the design didn’t include more spaces to allow for testing of large groups of students. Ok, nothing significant to all that. Still, the thought of building schools to ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Great Pineapple Controversy

  
  Teaching in the Middle — Authority: 466
  About a week ago I saw a slew of pineapple related tweets in regards to testing. This puzzled me because I had missed the news that the all mighty testing for-profit company, Pearson, had used a rather sneaky pineapple in one of the selections on a standardized test. To be specific, they essentially changed the fable ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Great Pineapple Controversy

  
  Teaching in the Middle — Authority: 466
  About a week ago I saw a slew of pineapple related tweets in regards to testing. This puzzled me because I had missed the news that the all mighty testing for-profit company, Pearson, had used a rather sneaky pineapple in one of the selections on a standardized test. To be specific, they essentially changed the fable ...
  3 weeks ago

• “Why don’t teachers just teach what is going to be on the test?”

  
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  Here is a guest column by Jonathan R. Herman, director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Georgia State University. By Jonathan R. Herman The astonishing reach of the CRCT cheating scandal may be opening lots of eyes, but many of us in the academia have already been noticing a ...
  3 weeks ago

• The first step in education reform is to test the politicians

  
  Esrati — Authority: 105
  We now do a lot of teaching to the test. Making sure that kids can pass tests created by private companies to gauge achievement. It’s a huge racket. We spend billions on tests, test prep and the time wasted in our already short school year. The same people who make the tests, make the textbooks,  the test prep ...
  3 weeks ago

• AJC cheating series: National Blue Ribbon Schools that may be red-faced at these revelations

  
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  The AJC has published the second installment in its major series on test score disparities nationwide. Today’s stories look at the improbable score patterns in some of the nation’s most highly decorated schools, National Blue Ribbon Schools. AJC reporters included a winning school that even merited a visit from ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Choice Blog: G.R.E. Will Allow Test Takers to Customize Score Reports

  
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  Students interested in eventually attending graduate and business schools will soon have a chance to put their best G.R.E. scores forward.
  4 weeks ago

• An English teacher looks at the new student writing expectations and shrieks in horror. I would, too.

  
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  Still waiting for DOE to respond to this note a high school English teacher sent me last week: I was just given a copy of the GaDOE’s Curriculum Maps for ELA 9-12th grades. I need some help from you before I quit my job and lead the charge for every other high school English teacher to do the same. I have taught ...
  4 weeks ago

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