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The rest of the story
Dkzody's Weblog —
Authority: 123
Here is the rest of the picture that I use for my blog heading. As you can see, there is a whole lot that I cut out. Much like my stories here. I don’t tell everything. Sometimes I confuse people or leave them wondering what happened. I don’t mean to, it just happens; much like life. This teaching job I ...11 hours ago -
Advice on College Admission, Standardized Testing from Michelle Obama
Great College Advice —
Authority: 418
Students at Denver’s South High School played host to First Lady Michelle Obama this past Monday. Students asked the First Lady about standardized tests, getting into college, and her advice to them as they enter the world as adults. Here’s a snippet from the Denver Post article that reported on her visit. ...1 week ago -
ZYDECO HELLRAISERS
"El Milagro Weblog" —
Authority: 107
What happens to Attention Deficit Disorder when it grows up? Sometimes it is channeled into extraordinary gifts. So Michael Phelps Picasso JFK James Carville Robin Williams… …are all reputed ADHD guys. This is hardly an exhaustive list but it’s enough to give you a flavor. I think if they named every ...1 week ago -
SAT freak out?
Notes from Peabody: The UVA Application Process —
Authority: 119
This is far better than any Thriller dance. The faculty at a high school in Brooklyn put this SAT video together for their students. Ive written a lot about standardized testing already. To read some of those past posts, just click on the "standardized testing" tag at the bottom of this entry.1 week ago -
School Reform’s ‘Odd Couple’ Interviewed on Meet the Press
TakePart Social Action Network —
Authority: 613
They’ve been called unlikely allies. Polar opposites. A political odd couple. And yet, at the request of President Obama, Newt Gingrich and Reverend Al Sharpton set aside their political differences to join U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on a national education tour. Admittedly, I wasn’t quite sure ...1 week ago -
Racism and Sexism in Standardized Testing
feminist blogs —
Authority: 157
As I prepare to take the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) in a little less than two weeks, I have begun to think about the politics behind standardized testing. While I understand that colleges and universities need some sort of measure of how to test applicants, the standardized test continues to be sexist and racist. I ...2 weeks ago -
NCLB Act and Proficiency Testing
NYC Private Schools Blog —
Authority: 429
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 ...2 weeks ago -
33 Posts On America’s Education System
Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog —
Authority: 119
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 weeks ago -
Data-driven decision-making resources from CASTLE
Dangerously Irrelevant —
Authority: 554
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 ...3 weeks ago -
Athletic SAT from Under Armour and IMG
Campus Entrepreneurship —
Authority: 110
Under Armour and leading talent agency IMG have joined forces and among other things, will begin creating a standard of measurement for high school athletes looking to play in college. As we all know, college athletics is a huge business and many global brands have come out of that part of the campus eco-system. Nike ...3 weeks ago -
The Education Wars IV
Random Thoughts from Random Places —
Authority: 148
Tying standardized test scores to teacher "evaluations" and pay is a bunch of ignorant tripe. As the piece notes, many teachers teach subjects not subject to standardized testing such as music, art, physical education, and special education. More important, though, is the fact few students take the standardized ...3 weeks ago -
Mike Lux on America’s “Historical, Hysterical Conservatives”
Cocking A Snook! —
Authority: 124
They have used the same arguments — for tradition and states rights, against “big government socialism” — in every era. In those past eras, history was not on their side. It is not in our time, either.. . .These conservative arguments have always been tinged with more than a little hysteria, just like today. ...4 weeks ago -
CHEATING OUR KIDS
"El Milagro Weblog" —
Authority: 107
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 ...4 weeks ago -
Importance of following standardized IQ test directions: Another Atkins MR/IQ decision
Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) —
Authority: 132
Another Atkins MR/IQ court decision revolving around IQ score issues, this time the Stanford-Binet V . Affidavit provided by SB5 test author. Oral arguments available to listen to. The decision should remind all psychologist re: the importance of following standardized testing procedures when administering an ...4 weeks ago
