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  Can Mandarin Save a Failing Georgia School?
  A failing Macon, Georgia school district mandates Mandarin language lessons to stave off a staggering 50% dropout rate.
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “standardized tests”

 

• 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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• 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...
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• 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 → ...
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• 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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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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...
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• 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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• 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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• Standardized tests measure kids and teachers, but whos measuring the tests?

  
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  Teachers have to document and defend their effectiveness. Test makers dont. A high school English teacher rues the irony.
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• Principal Fires Armed Guards, Hires Arts Teachers

  
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  Remember the solution proposed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) to reduce mass shootings like the one in Newtown, CT last December? “More Armed Guards” in America’s schools. You wonder if the NRA has ever been inside a low income urban school and experienced the atmosphere of fear and tension that the ...
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• Afternoon Announcements: Why Dont More Students Finish College?

  
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  Virginia’s largest full-time statewide virtual school is likely to close, affecting more than 350 students in the next school year. The decision comes as the Carroll County School Board plans to end its partnership with the contractor that operates the virtual school. Washington Post A Georgetown sociology ...
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• Chicago Students Tell It Like It Is: Standardized Tests Don’t Work

  
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  Last week, every public high school junior in Illinois sat for the state’s high stakes testing. The Prairie State Achievement Exam, or PSAE as us teachers lovingly call it, is a two day test . On the first day, students take the ACT — every student takes this, whether they plan on going to college [...]
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• As Our 10-Year-Old Cheers the End of State Tests, We Wish They Would Go Away

  
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  By NICK CHILES When our 10-year-old tumbled off the schoolbus today, the relief on her face tucked all up in that broad smile, it signaled the end of the five-day torture chamber that is our... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• The Importance of Summer Tutoring

  
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  Many parents and students believe that summer is reserved for relaxing and having fun.  Several parents don’t really stress the importance of keeping their kids mentally active during summer, because they think that the 2 to 3 months of summer break are well deserved.  However, the consequences of this downtime ...
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• Breaking the Cycle of Test-Taking Woe

  
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  It may have been April Fool’s Day, but it felt like Groundhog Day. Stories about the  indictment  of former Atlanta superintendent Beverly Hall along with dozens of teachers and principals on charges of cheating on high stakes assessments are just the latest installment of tales of woe. The District of Columbia ...
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• A testing time in New York education demands reflection and a statewide conversation

  
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  Over the past few weeks, weve been captivated by the lively debate about standardized testing and the Common Core curriculum as it plays out among parents, teachers, administrators and students. Westhill High School history teacher Jerry Conti ignited a firestorm...
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• The Illusion of the “Gifted” Child

  
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  When news broke late last week that behemoth education company Pearson had bungled the scoring of standardized tests used for admissions to gifted education programs in New York City, it united Gotham’s quarrelling education community — everyone was outraged. Parents, teachers, and city officials all had good ...
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