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• All Virginia students to use computers for standardized tests

  
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  All Virginia students will have to log on to a computer to take this year’s Standards of Learning tests, making Virginia one of the only states to wholly abandon the nearly ubiquitous paper-and-pencil bubble sheets. Read full article >>        
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• Monday Links

  
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  *  I have recently asked my colleagues at UCSD questions such as: How many adjunct/contingent/non-tenure track faculty are there in your department? Can you name them? Have you met any adjuncts for coffee or lunch on campus? Are they invited to the homes of ladder rank faculty? Do they have office space? Do they ...
  4 days ago

• Clear winners in school testing debate are the for-profit testing companies

  
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  To the Editor: Recently our schoolchildren in Onondaga County took 90 minutes of mandated tests. Whether or not these tests improved our educational programs or aided in student learning, I am not sure. However, one element of this testing mania...
  5 days ago

• To K-12 Philanthropists: Build the Perfect Test

  
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  Race to the Top, No Child Left Behind, and the current educational reforms proposed by education philanthropists like Bill Gates all have one thing in common: they measure success by examining students’ standardized test scores.  This, unfortunately, is exactly why all of these initiatives fail to work (and, ...
  6 days ago

• TED Talk: Escaping Education’s Death Valley

  
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  Fueled largely by his legendary 2006 TED talk asserting that schools kill creativity, Sir Ken Robinson is the most-viewed speaker of all time on TED.com .  Over the years, his message has evolved slightly, but he continues to remind all of us that teaching is creative work, that the standardization of education is ...
  6 days ago

• Was #JeffBliss disrespectful for demanding a beyond-the-packet education?

  
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  By now, youve probably seen the video of high school student Jeff Bliss demanding an end to what he calls "packet teaching." Instead he puts out a call to action for teachers to work to touch the hearts of kids to open their minds. The interaction was ignited when his teacher told him to stop his bitching about the ...
  1 week ago

• Lynne Varner says Seattle teacher protests against testing are focused on the wrong problem

  
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  You would think that smarter kids would do better in school, right? Wrong--and least not for poor black kids. The fact is that any child of average intelligence can succeed in school--as long as he/she has a rich environment of verbal interactions, a wide variety of experiences, a safe home, preparation for ...
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• Teacher writes about not being allowed to discuss new NYS tests

  
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  A high school English teacher from Delaware County had a column this week in the Syracuse Post-Standard about not being allowed to discuss the new state tests. Gretchen Dandrea Blynt writes: “Our country is purporting to be on a mission to reform it public education system. I’ve heard the phrase,... Read More → ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ]
  2 weeks ago

• Afternoon Announcements: TEDTalks Education

  
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  Coursera, a well-known provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs), announced this week that they’ll be partnering with several publishers to provide some textbooks for free for student-use while taking the courses. The textbooks would be available on e-readers. Washington Post A one-hour TED Talks ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ossining student writes about ‘product placement’ on New York state’s ELA test

  
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  The Washington Post’s “Answer Sheet” education blog has an essay today from a 14-year-old Ossining student named Isaiah Schrader. Isaiah, an eighth-grader at Anne M. Dorner Middle School in Ossining, writes about his experience taking the state ELA test a couple of weeks ago. (That’s him last October receiving ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why Syracuses Catholic schools administer state tests, when other private schools dont

  
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  To the Editor: In response to the letter by Scott Wiggins of Manlius Pebble Hill, I wish to submit to your readers a different perspective on this statement: "Unlike some non-public schools in the Central New York region that have...
  2 weeks ago

• Senate passes amended HB5

  
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  The Senate has passed its version of House Bill 5, which makes sweeping changes to standardized testing and curriculum requirements for high school students. Texas high school students would have new curriculum requirements under legislation unanimously passed by the Senate on Monday — but they won’t be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Intelligence is not one-dimensional - forget about IQ

  
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  Fractionating Human Intelligence By Adam Hampshire, Roger Highfield, Beth Parkin, & Adrian Owen Abstract : What makes one person more intellectually able than another? Can the entire distribution of human intelligence be accounted for by just one general factor? Is intelligence supported by a single neural ...
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• How BPM-based Traceability can go Beyond Regulatory Compliance

  
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  Yesterday, I had an interesting phone call with some very smart people from ChainLink research ( www.chainlinkresearch.com/ ).  We were discussing business drivers for global traceability initiatives when Bill McBeath, their Chief Research Officer, used the term “incident driven” initiatives. Basically, the point ...
  2 weeks ago

• Journalism & Digital Education Roundup, May 7, 2013

  
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  1. Schools act to prevent high-tech cheating on standardized tests (LA Times) 2. The best in ed-tech tools (EdSurge) 3. Who’s afraid of the big bad MOOC? (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 4. The digital lives of teens, and why schools should take note (Edutopia) 5. Why online courses (really) need an instructional ...
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• A Syracuse parent watches school become a factory: Kids are a series of data points

  
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  Families and communities provide a better model for teaching our children.
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• ARE WE HAVING ANY FUN YET? TEACHING TO THE TEST

  
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  So today (I’m writing on Monday) I was supposed to do a 9:00 AM test call for an upcoming video conference with some seventh graders.   Lo and behold, at 8:30 AM, my screen lights up and a harried-looking tech person appears amidst stacks of boxes.   “Sorry,” she says, “but we have standardized tests all ...
  2 weeks ago

• Answers to Top Questions about Homeschooling

  
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  As parents consider homeschooling their child or children, they often have a lot of questions. Here are some of these top questions (and their answers) asked by those expressing curiosity and concerns about homeschooling. Answers to Top Questions about Homeschooling 1. Will my child receive proper ...
  2 weeks ago

• Opting out of standardized tests

  
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  Part 6 (of 874) in an occasional series about how standardized tests are destroying education. One frustration with standardized testing is its seeming inevitability. The bureaucratic, Kafkaesque testing structure. Your disagreements don’t matter. Your arguments and pleas don’t matter. You will be tested. But ...
  2 weeks ago

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