High Stakes Testing

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• Charter School Hires Convicted Felon

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 137
  Q:What do you do when your charter school is under fire for cheating on tests? A: Hire a convicted felon - whose brother is a state representative - to clean up the mess. Additionally, only 6 of the 14 board members voted to appoint the convict , Mr. Swan, and the charter may have violated the open meetings law, ...
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• The Price of Being #1 in Test Scores Is Paid by Children

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 137
  As middle class Korean parents battle to get their children out of the kind of testing sweatshops that characterize Korean schools in particular and Asian schools in general, American education, now highjacked by the Crooks of the Business Roundtable, want to turn American schools into the same kind of testing boot ...
  3 days ago

• Scoring the Testing Industry

  
  TLN Teacher Voices — Authority: 394
  Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry By Todd Farley (PoliPoint Press, 2009)
 Reviewed by Kenneth Bernstein, NBCT
 High School Government & Social Studies (MD)
 Teacher Leaders Network As the use of tests created external to schools and classrooms has exploded, one ...
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• Cart Awaiting a Horse

  
  Eduflack — Authority: 114
  A little more this week from Eduflack guest blogger, Dr. John Jensen ... Several decades ago when differences between right and left brain thinking were first explored, a story was told to illustrate. During World War II, many harbors in Hawaii were blocked by sunken warships, one important channel in ...
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• A Rigorous Thanksgiving

  
  TLN Teacher Voices — Authority: 394
  David B. Cohen, NBCT Teacher Leaders Network  With Thanksgiving arriving, we begin to hear and read commentaries about all that we are thankful for. As a teacher, I am mindful of the role teachers have played in my own life. Of course, the climate and values in education have changed somewhat since the 1970s, ...
  2 weeks ago

• NCTE Wins Its Own Doublespeak Award for LEARN Dissembling?

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 137
  From Susan Ohanian and Steve Krashen : FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The NCTE gives The Doublespeak Award annually to those "who have perpetuated language that is grossly deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing, or self-centered." Previous winners include George W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Exxon, the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hungry? No Excuses. Dont know English? No Excuses

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 137
  Next year will mark 30 years since the Reagan team came to Washington and began the roll back on civil and human rights gains of the previous two decades. When it became apparent, in fact, that the attempt to close the U. S. Department of Education would fail, the Reagan team shifted its focus to, instead, utilizing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Give Me Harvard or Give Me Death

  
  The Core Knowledge Blog — Authority: 131
  Parental anxiety is ruining playtime, notes the Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss.  It’s not news that lots of preschool parents have become “super-anxious trying to give their kids a leg up on kindergarten,” Strauss writes at The Answer Sheet.  “But I didn’t realize just how nutty things had become ...
  4 weeks ago

• Reading Gaining Speed as Fed Priority?

  
  Eduflack — Authority: 114
  With all of the talk about RttT, school turnarounds, and the like, we havent spent much time at all talking about core instructional issues.  As many schools continue to struggle reaching AYP and demonstrating the sort of student achievement we all expect (and that the federal law still demands), we just havent been ...
  5 weeks ago

• In Search of 21st Century Joe Clarks

  
  Eduflack — Authority: 114
  When Im flipping through the cable stations late at night, unable to sleep because something or another has my mind going a thousand miles an hour, there are a number of movies for which I will always stop and watch.  Braveheart, Thank You For Smoking, the original All the Kings Men, Bull Durham, Tin Cup, Roadhouse, ...
  5 weeks ago

• NewSchools Venture Fund Invests in Testings Stranglehold

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 137
  From a NewSchools Venture Fund press release : NewSchools Venture Fund Invests $1 Million in The Achievement Network (ANet) New investment will support organization’s efforts to improve student achievement SAN FRANCISCO, CA - September 16, 2009 - NewSchools Venture Fund today announced an investment of $1 ...
  6 weeks ago

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