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

  
  This Week In Education — 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 ...
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• Gary Stager: First We Kill the Teachers Unions

  
  Practical Theory — 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 ...
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• Cartoon: Jiggling The Mouse To Make AYP

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

  
  NYC Private Schools Blog — 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 ...
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• 33 Posts On America’s Education System

  
  Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog — 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: ...
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• How Do You Measure Success?

  
  Principals' Office — 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 ...
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• Send…More…Money

  
  Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog — 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 ...
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• Teaching to the test

  
  DGreport.com — 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 ...
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• 21st Century Teachers are Those that Pass Tests?

  
  The Edjurist — 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 ...
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• A Lesson from Oklahoma

  
  The Changing Face of Education in Iowa — 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 ...
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• Two Roadblocks to Transformation We Have Yet to Address

  
  Ed Tech Journeys — 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 ...
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• Data-driven decision-making resources from CASTLE

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — 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 ...
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• Way To Go (Almost All the Way), Jay!

  
  Cato @ Liberty — 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 ...
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• Arne Duncan: A Flawed Proposition

  
  The Frustrated Teacher — 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 ...
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• WEEKEND QUOTABLES

  
  SmallTalk — 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 ...
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• CHEATING OUR KIDS

  
  "El Milagro Weblog" — 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 ...
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• A celebratory dunk

  
  The Education Report — 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 ...
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• Illinois Schools 2009 - Poor Kids Still Lag

  
  Tutor Mentor Connection — 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 ...
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• Closing the Proficiency Gap By Lowering the Standards

  
  State of Ohio Education Blog — 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 ...
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• Theres Gambling in Our Ed Assessment Casablanca?

  
  Eduflack — 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 ...
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