Common Core State [sic] Standards
Alone among policy heavyweights, Vallas conveys reform fears
Ohanian Comment:
Here's the announcement of the launch of the new City University of New York's new Institute for Education Policy:
CUNY Chancell...
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INDEX OF COMMON CORE [SIC] STANDARDS
Data Command Center
Pearson Lines Up the World
Revision of 5/6/12
by Susan Ohanian
It is illuminating to read the Pearson Annual Report of 2000. Here is the message:
Embed asses...
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INDEX OF DATA COMMAND FORCE
Commentaries
Change the purpose of education
This is from Standard-Examiner, May 15, 2013. Lynn Stoddard asks readers to "open the door...
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INDEX OF COMMENTARIES
Duncanisms
We Should Keep Online Testing, But We Should Learn From ISTEP+ Failures
But again, directionally, having computer-adaptive tests, having the ability to evaluate way more than just fill-in-the-bubble stuff -- the critical thinking skills -- directionally, it's the right wa...
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INDEX OF DUNCANISMS
Gerald Bracey tributes
Here's a Link to Gerald Bracey's Website
You'll find LOTS of articles here....
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INDEX OF GERALD BRACEY TRIBUTES
RTTT & NCLB Outrages
DIBELS Abuse in Tennessee
Ohanian Comment: I received this message from a Tennessee mom. It is a reminder that DIBELS is still used to abuse children. Richelle Deharde said she is happy for her na...
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INDEX OF RTTT & NCLB OUTRAGES
The Eggplant
U. S. Youth Engage in Arne Duncan's Favorite Season of the Year
Some students taking the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment test found themselves suddenly logged out during the test; others discovered that the test would not accept correct answers. "I was k...
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Outrage of the Day
Larry Ellison's Dangerous America's Cup The new boats have made the race life-threatening—and have dumbed down the sailing.
The recent America's Cup catastrophe in San Francisco Bay--and who makes the rules in sailing competition--has parallels with school reform, to wit:
INDEX OF OUTRAGES OF THE DAY
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Quotes
"I have been in schools were the reading coach is used as a data repository, spending most of her time in an office lined with bookshelves filled with unused young adult novels. Such coaches spend their time manipulating and remanipulating the reams of data that cross their desks daily. Education has become so data driven that we sometimes forget that human beings are more than data suppliers."
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NCLB In Your Face
Ask About the Administration's Suggestions to Revise the ESEA
You can borrow Stephen Krashen's fine questions for the Administration. Send them in! Use them for newspaper op eds. Share them with your PTA.
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Resisters' Letters
To the editor
Regarding Kirk McDonald's Sorry, College Grads, I Probably Won't Hire You (op-ed May 10): Mr. McDonald, I ...
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Yahoo, Good News!
Why I am Running for School Board--Sue Peters
Anyone who has followed Seattle Education blog knows how knowledgeable Sue Peters is. And anyone who hasn't followed it, should. Seattle Education blog covers issues that matter to all of us.
by Sue Peters
For the past nine years, I have been deeply involved in Seattle's public schools, as a parent of two, a s...
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Militarization of Our Schools
U.S. Secretary of Education Duncan to Join Army Chief of Staff Gen. Casey in Announcing 'Project Pass' in Radcliff, Ky
U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. has been in the Army since 1970. There is no record of how many public schools he has been in during this time, but he did wo...
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INDEX OF MILITARIZATION OF OUR SCHOOLS
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Stupid Test Items
California History-Social Science Standards Test
A student teacher comments: The correct answer was a). That the word relocated in a question could possibly be paired with an answer that has freedom in it is a...
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Sarah's Notes
Mrs. Puglisi's 100 National Standards
by Sarah Puglisi
I just read a nice editorial about HOW RELIEVED a newspaper is if we have National Standards.
In the New York Times, you can read it
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INDEX OF SARAH'S NOTES
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Cartoon
Just Say No
INDEX OF CARTOONS
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Research that Counts
Half of researchers have reported trouble reproducing published findings: MD Anderson survey
This caused me to wonder how much of education research traveling under the name of "classroom innovation" is replicable. Adam Marcus runs Retraction Watch blog with Ivan Oransky.
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INDEX OF RESEARCH THAT COUNTS
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NCLB Cartoon
Frederick's Lesson for 5th Graders and Their Teachers
While the other mice gather wheat, grain, and seeds, Frederick gathers rays of sunshine, stories, and words. . . .
Read the wonderful graduation speech based on Frederick by Leo Lionni:
http://teachtruthtopower.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-important-work-of-frederick-mouse.html
INDEX OF NCLB CARTOONS
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