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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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• Data-driven decision-making resources from CASTLE

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 545
  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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• Athletic SAT from Under Armour and IMG

  
  Campus Entrepreneurship — Authority: 108
  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 ...
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• The Education Wars IV

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 444
  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 ...
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• Mike Lux on America’s “Historical, Hysterical Conservatives”

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  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. ...
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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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• Importance of following standardized IQ test directions: Another Atkins MR/IQ decision

  
  Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) — Authority: 129
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• For Better Test Scores, Use Better Tests

  
  AssortedStuff — Authority: 114
  I guess the problem with international assessments, the ones that show US kids doing poorly compared to their peers in other countries, is that we’re using the wrong ones. At least according to the expert Jay Mathews interviewed. He says the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)) is a bad ...
  3 weeks ago

• Looking for a true “progress report” for the guys

  
  debralegg.com — Authority: 130
  Funny how an off-hand comment from three decades ago can stick with you, its implications changing over time. For me, the comment came during the summer between sixth and seventh grade, when I was visiting the old neighborhood. I rushed to see my former first-grade teacher, who also was a beloved neighbor, to share ...
  3 weeks ago

• Early decision; Is it for you?

  
  blog.scholarships.com — Authority: 428
  By CampusCompare Early decision (ED) is an increasingly popular choice for college applications. The reason? Well, actually there are a couple. First of all, by applying early, students get their admissions notifications early: try around December 15, the same time that regular decision applications are due. This ...
  3 weeks ago

• The State of College Admissions 2009

  
  blog.scholarships.com — Authority: 428
  Most high school seniors are now entering the last leg of their college search and selecting the colleges to which they plan to apply.  Many are already beginning the college application process, especially if they plan to meet rapidly approaching early decision or early action deadlines at their top choice ...
  3 weeks ago

• Should Children Start School at Age 6 Instead of 5?

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 814
  Filed under: Education , Woman Up , International In the United Kingdom, at least, its looking like the answer to that question is "yes." This is but one of several controversial findings to emerge from the most comprehensive review of the British educational system in 40 years.   Permalink  |  Email ...
  3 weeks ago

• Thoughts after a week on the road

  
  Notes from Peabody: The UVA Application Process — Authority: 114
  As you can see from the last post, I just spent a week in New England with my friends from JHU and NU. We had a wonderful time meeting students, parents, and counselors during our programs. A topic that came up time and again was one I thought we addressed and settled already. However, the daily questions ...
  3 weeks ago

• Smartest Two Percent Use It to Conclude Home Education is Smart

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  Spunky is blogging a Mensa study done by that organization’s foundation to research the nature of intelligence:First-year college performance:A study of home school graduates and traditional school graduatesThe academic performance analyses indicate that home school graduates are as ready for college as traditional ...
  3 weeks ago

• Senatorial Hipocrisy!

  
  The Principal and Interest — Authority: 103
  I usually do not get too political on this blog, but I am red-hot mad about something I heard on NBC’s Meet the Press this morning.  David Gregory was interviewing Senator Chris Dodd (D) Connecticut.  Dodd made a statement that absolutely infuriated me. Watch this very short interview or read the transcript ...
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• CROSSING THE API BRIDGE WE HAVE COME TO

  
  "El Milagro Weblog" — Authority: 106
  Warning! This is NOT a post about how screwed up the whole high stakes testing and accountability movement is.  It is NOT  a scathing criticism of NCLB or the misguided goals of our public policy toward schools. It is not a rant about how access to health care for all students would do more to decrease ...
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• The Brady Brothers Series: " Race to the Top"

  
  Learning in Maine — Authority: 473
  Race to the Top: Passive or Active Learning Race to the Top: The Unaddressed Problem Race to the Top: Information Overload Race to the Top: Looking at Standards Race to the Top: To What End? Download Connections: Investigating Reality
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• What’s Core?

  
  The Fischbowl — Authority: 116
  The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a joint effort by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) in partnership with Achieve, ACT and the College Board. Governors and state commissioners of education from across the ...
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• A real story about formative vs summative assessment

  
  HOPE Foundation — Authority: 114
  The tension in the room was real.  As a new professor to the university setting, my colleague had drug me along to a statewide task force meeting to discuss our statewide assessment problems.  It was clear from the anxious faces around the room that people weren’t seeing eye-to-eye on how our statewide assessment ...
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• the achievement gap

  
  John Spencer's Blog — Authority: 429
  Its my first year of teaching and I have the task of analyzing ethnic demographic data in relation to achievement scores.  Basically, its stereotyping with good intentions (if one considers raising test scores to be good intentions. Im not so sure)  Each person must give a potential cause and solution. "Given the ...
  4 weeks ago

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