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• in Family
  When Dr. King Freed the Slaves
  We thought the Emanicipation Proclamation Freed the Slaves!
  by speakmytruth / on Feb 17, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “high stakes testing”

 

• House rejects Senate changes in bill to overhaul Texas school testing, accountability system

  
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  … Rep. Jimmie Don Aycock, R-Killeen, will lead a Texas House delegation in negotiations with with Senate members on the contested bill. (File 2013/Austin American-Statesman) visit site to read more ]
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• Common Core Testing: Creating New Consumers

  
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  From the Washington Posts The Answer Sheet, a guest column by an 8th grader, Isaiah Schrader, in New York (he is a gifted student so the essay reads very well). Guess what kids?  The new Common Core assessments developed by the mega-uber education group Pearson?  Contains brand-names (complete with trademark ...
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• Turning Our Children Into Robots And Guinea Pigs

  
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  I’ve been getting progressively more alarmed at all of the shameful stories coming out lately on the spread of high-stakes testing into so much of our public school system.  The  simplistic argument underlying it smells exactly like most of the other simplistic bullshit Republicans incessantly excrete*: The ...
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• Winning!

  
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  Parents and students are getting angry and getting the attention of state school officials.  Texas moms halt testing.  “We were not going to sit around and see our kids be potentially put at a competitive disadvantage,” said Dineen Majcher, whose daughter is in the first class affected by the new testing. ...
  2 weeks ago

• A different path for education reform

  
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  Recent readings about education reform and conversations with teachers have convinced me that the current emphasis on high-stakes testing is misguided, and that education reform as we know it is more about enriching for-profit educational testing and curriculum companies and privileged charter school networks than ...
  3 weeks ago

• Doctors. Lawyers. CPAs. They get re-dos. Our students don’t?

  
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  A tweet from Rick Wormeli (@RickWormeli) has been swimming around in my mind for the better part of a month. During a standards-based grading Twitter chat, here’s what he wrote: (Note: If you don’t participate in education Twitter chats, they’re great for resources and inspiration. Learn how to Twitter chat in ...
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• Automatic Grading

  
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  When I learned that EdX had developed software that would instantly grade written work, my first reaction was one of skepticism. After all, while (Photo credit: Wikipedia) spell-checkers work well and grammar checkers work sort of well, it seems unlikely that software could properly evaluate written work. My ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hundreds of Chicago students boycott standardized tests

  
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  North Carolina lawmakers may be moving to put more stock than ever in high-stakes, standardized testing, but around the country, the momentum is growing to de-emphasize the tests. As reported yesterday at the website Common Dreams , hundreds of Chicago … Read More...
  3 weeks ago

• Ender’s Game and Standardized Testing

  
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  I recently read the 1980s science fiction classic Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card and found it to be a thoroughly enjoyable story despite the author’s personal view point on the subject of same sex marriage, which admittedly colored my reading and interpretations of some of the finer points of the story. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey – 3/24/13

  
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  BlackAgendaRadio_AlbumArt.jpg Chicago Teachers Prepare Electoral Challenge to Mayor Emanuel Massive school closings have made Chicago “ground zero” in the battle to preserve public education, said Michael Brunson , of the Chicago Teachers Union. Fifty-four schools have been ...
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• From Chicago to Atlanta, Teachers Cheat

  
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  Sumo matches turn on moral, economic, and social incentives (photo: picasa via chinyankeat) Thanks to the federal No Child Left Behind act and other high-stakes testing laws, schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have something in common. According to Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, authors of the 2005 best-selling ...
  4 weeks ago

• Choose to Refuse

  
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  In case you cant read the handwriting:  To Whom It May Concern,  I am refusing the NY State ELA, Math and Science Assessments. I believe in the quality education I am receiving at Olmsted. I believe in my teachers abilities, knowledge and experience to help guide me along the path to college. I believe in more ...
  4 weeks ago

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