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• How teacher unions lobby government to block educational reform

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 537
  If you study software engineering management, you learned about the importance of measuring different quantities to asses the quality of the software being produced. For instance, we measure things like unit test coverage, coupling, cohesion and cyclomatic complexity. In fact, just today I had to add unit tests to ...
  15 hours ago

• The Class for the “Slow” Is Ahead of its Time

  
  Stray Blog — Authority: 109
  My sister just started working in the “DD” Class at the local public high school. The “DD” stands for developmentally disabled. Yesterday they watched a movie about the Great Barrier Reef to learn about Australia. Then they went to the Dollar Store to purchase Christmas gifts for the class’s “Secret ...
  1 day ago

• So whats the exchange rate?

  
  Heavy Lifting — Authority: 128
  Between the GRE scores c. 1991 and the GRE scores c. 2011? The new GRE will be graded on a scale of 130-170? This will reduce the variance in the scores and, unfortunately, reduce the signal-noise ratio in the scores. There seems to have been a trend in the past ten years of moving away from the standardized test ...
  1 week ago

• End-of-course exams would be better than "exit" exams, advocacy group says

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 141
  As we reported last week, Florida will begin field testing its first two end-of-course exams this spring. These statewide final exams (for now, Florida plans to have four, rolled out in the next few years) could eventually be used in...
  2 weeks ago

• Not so standardized tests

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 605
  Todd Farley’s Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry gets a review in the Washington Post.  After rising from scorer to trainer to test writer, Farley concluded that standardized tests are “less a precise tool to assess students’ exact abilities than just a lucrative ...
  3 weeks ago

• My Opposition to Kindergarten - Second Grade 2 Standardized Testing by NYC Department of Education (DOE)

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 135
  My comments to the District 27 Community Education Council regarding - "My Opposition to Kindergarten - Second Grade 2 Standardized Testing by NYC Department of Education (DOE)" got picked up by The Huffington Post via Room8... Read the Article at HuffingtonPost Good evening, District 27 CEC board members and ...
  3 weeks ago

• QUICK Hits

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 571
  So even if Boston AP teachers qualify for a bonus based on their students’ scores, the union says no go? (Ed is Watching) Since when did Finding Nemo become a movie kids would watch in science? (Joanne Jacobs) What does the coach of Real Madrid have in common with the coaches of the Crimson Tide and the USC ...
  3 weeks ago

• SAT test day coming up? Charta Squad says RELAX!

  
  OSU Admissions Blog — Authority: 118
  If you’re a high school senior, this is a stressful time of year. Between school, activities, SAT/ACT tests and applying to college. Here’s an awesome music video from students at the Believe High Schools in Brooklyn, NY that will help break the stress: Best line: I got my SAT pants on. Got my SAT dance on. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brain Fitness Software – The Gift They’ll Always Remember

  
  Health & Fitness Blog — Authority: 170
  When youre racking your brain for gift ideas this holiday season dont forget to put brain training software on your list. You can be pretty sure that they dont already have it, and for the right person its sure to make you a hit.
  4 weeks ago

• FLOTUS talks about herself…again

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 151
  November 18, 2009It’s clear that neither POTUS or FLOTUS can make any remarks without including themselves. And the both make it seem like they had these terrible struggles when they absolutely did not.FLOTUS spoke at South High School, Denver, Colorado – 1500 students – and talked to just 30 of them. Her ...
  4 weeks ago

• School Reform’s ‘Odd Couple’ Interviewed on Meet the Press

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 522
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Brain Training – The Gift of A Better Brain

  
  Naked News — Authority: 175
  When youre racking your brain for gift ideas this holiday season dont forget to put brain training software on your list. You can be pretty sure that they dont already have it, and for the right person its sure to make you a hit.
  4 weeks ago

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