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  • Exclusions: More Ways To Get Low-Scoring Kids Off The Books


    This Week In EducationAuthority Authority: 576
    Cool ways to juke the stats are coming out of the Land of Lincoln.  First the Chicago Tribunes Stephanie Banchero revealed that schools were keeping low-scoring / credit deficient juniors out of the 11th grade testing pool by classifying them as super sophomores ( Case of the missing juniors ).  Not that the ...
    1 day ago
  • Gary Stager: First We Kill the Teachers Unions


    Practical TheoryAuthority Authority: 98
    [No... he doesnt really mean it.] A little over a year ago, Gary Stager wrote an article for the Huffington Post about the new-found Democractic fascination with bashing teachers unions -- and why that is about as counter to Democratic ideals as one could imagine. Today, his words are all the more true. Blaming ...
    1 day ago
  • Cartoon: Jiggling The Mouse To Make AYP


    This Week In EducationAuthority Authority: 576
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  • NCLB Act and Proficiency Testing


    NYC Private Schools BlogAuthority Authority: 422
    Many NYC Private School families report that the substandard level of their locally assigned school’s educational programs are the top reason they chose to pull out and instead send their children to a private school. The No Child Left Behind act has changed much of the way public schools think about standardized ...
    1 day ago
  • 33 Posts On America’s Education System


    Educated Nation | Higher Education BlogAuthority Authority: 414
    While writing the previous post , I went searching in the archives for relevant previous posts. I found entirely too many to tack onto the end of an already-lengthy post. Here they are, including some Education Reform posts proving I’m not always in disagreement with President Obama. Teaching and Teachers: ...
    2 days ago
  • How Do You Measure Success?


    Principals' OfficeAuthority Authority: 118
    Among educators’ concerns regarding the No Child Left Behind Act is the law’s over-reliance of standardized assessments as the sole or primary measure of student, school, or educator success. The solution, many say, is using “multiple measures”—but what that encompasses is yet to be determined. What do you ...
    2 days ago
  • Send…More…Money


    Educated Nation | Higher Education BlogAuthority Authority: 414
    I’m running out of productive things to say about the education system in the U.S. Mostly I just want to slap everyone involved and ask them what the f**k is going on. Is the answer to why our public schools are struggling so hard to put out decently educated students so obvious that no one can see it? It’s ...
    3 days ago
  • Teaching to the test


    DGreport.comAuthority Authority: 133
    Who thinks No Child Left Behind is a good idea? I haven’t met any parent or teacher who supports it. Dgmom743 posed a question that for many of us has a clear answer:  No. Any law or practice that promotes standardized tests as the sole measure of achievement is not only a bad idea, it’s a treacherous one that ...
    3 days ago
  • 21st Century Teachers are Those that Pass Tests?


    The EdjuristAuthority Authority: 421
    According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ... yes.  In their latest education report card , what they deem a report card on educational effectiveness, they have 9 different subjects on which they are reporting. One of those subjects that the states are graded on is "21st Century Teaching Force." I figured that ...
    3 days ago
  • A Lesson from Oklahoma


    The Changing Face of Education in IowaAuthority Authority: 114
    Earlier this fall, the Oklahoma Council for Public Affairs released the results from the survey it had commissioned about the civics knowledge of high school students, which were very alarming. Only 23% identified George Washington as the first president, 29% identified the president as being in charge of the ...
    3 days ago
  • Two Roadblocks to Transformation We Have Yet to Address


    Ed Tech JourneysAuthority Authority: 103
    Hundreds of educational technology bloggers and conference speakers hold forth on the need for transformational change in our educational system, and the conversation can get pretty lofty and philosophical. I am a strong advocate for transformational reform; but it seems to me there are two very serious roadblocks in ...
    5 days ago
  • Data-driven decision-making resources from CASTLE


    Dangerously IrrelevantAuthority Authority: 553
    I have done a lot of work over the years on various data-driven decision-making projects. Ive taught courses, given workshops, delivered multi-day institutes for state departments of education and corporate partners, and written book chapters and white papers. I collected some of the highlights of that work on my ...
    1 week ago
  • Way To Go (Almost All the Way), Jay!


    Cato @ LibertyAuthority Authority: 740
    This morning Washington Post education columnist — and terrific Cato forum panelist – Jay Mathews called for abolition of the office of the U.S. Secretary of Education ! Why? Because it has proven itself worthless, that’s why: The president, I suspect, thought that Duncan, the former chief of the Chicago ...
    1 week ago
  • Arne Duncan: A Flawed Proposition


    The Frustrated TeacherAuthority Authority: 135
    Rothstein Takes on Turnarounds From the National Journal Online debate about school turnarounds: Richard Rothstein , Research Associate, Economic Policy Institute It is an admirable goal to "turn around" low-performing schools. But before attempting this, we need to ensure that we have accurately ...
    1 week ago
  • WEEKEND QUOTABLES


    SmallTalkAuthority Authority: 519
    AFT prez on Chicago charter union contract Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said: “This contract is a great example of how charter schools can be incubators for innovative reforms and good labor-management practices…Civitas teachers are walking the education-reform walk by ...
    1 week ago
  • CHEATING OUR KIDS


    "El Milagro Weblog"Authority Authority: 106
    This past week the National Center for Education Statistics released a report that may have been a shocker for people outside of the education industry:  when it comes to student achievement, many of our states are cheating!  Or at the very least, they are cheating their kids. According to an article ...
    1 week ago
  • A celebratory dunk


    The Education ReportAuthority Authority: 125
    Photo of Benjamin Schmookler courtesy of Media Academy Benjamin Schmookler, principal of Media Academy  – a small school on East Oakland’s Fremont Federation campus — agreed to be dunked today during a celebration of the school’s improved test scores. Media Academy’s state test scores went up by 79 ...
    1 week ago
  • Illinois Schools 2009 - Poor Kids Still Lag


    Tutor Mentor ConnectionAuthority Authority: 422
    Early this morning I attended a kick off meeting of the annual Combined Charities Campaign at the US Postal Facility in Naperville, Il. I had about 2 minutes to make my pitch, so I tried to get the words "tutor mentor" and "search Internet" in my delivery. That was enough for one young woman, who wrote a $25 check ...
    1 week ago
  • Closing the Proficiency Gap By Lowering the Standards


    State of Ohio Education BlogAuthority Authority: 126
    I am shocked, shocked I tell you that some states may be lowering performance standards in order to report that high percentages of their students have reached the proficient level. Education Week reports: With 2014 approaching as the deadline by which states must get their all their students up to ...
    1 week ago
  • Theres Gambling in Our Ed Assessment Casablanca?


    EduflackAuthority Authority: 416
    Yesterdays release of the National Center for Education Statistics report Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto National Assessment of Education Progress Scales: 2005-2007 seemed like it was almost lifted from the movie Casablanca.  We are shocked, shocked to learn that many states "standards" are hardly standards ...
    1 week ago

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