Common Core State [sic] Standards
Sympathy for the Luddites
Ohanian Comment
Read Krugman's column provides a good rebuttal to the Common Core hogwash. In short,
Education isn't the answe...
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INDEX OF COMMON CORE [SIC] STANDARDS
Data Command Center
U.S. school database loses backers as parents balk over privacy
Ohanian Comment; Kudos to parents for raising a ruckus over this Gates Foundation/inBloom data collection scheme. You can see the info collected, which includes diciplin...
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INDEX OF DATA COMMAND FORCE
Commentaries
We're All to Blame for MOOCs
This is from The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 3,...
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INDEX OF COMMENTARIES
Duncanisms
We Should Keep Online Testing, But We Should Learn From ISTEP+ Failures
But again, directionally, having computer-adaptive tests, having the ability to evaluate way more than just fill-in-the-bubble stuff -- the critical thinking skills -- directionally, it's the right wa...
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INDEX OF DUNCANISMS
Gerald Bracey tributes
Here's a Link to Gerald Bracey's Website
You'll find LOTS of articles here....
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INDEX OF GERALD BRACEY TRIBUTES
RTTT & NCLB Outrages
FairTest Press Release: Senate Education Bill Fails To Reverse "No Child Left Behind" Damage, Ignores Constituents
Pass this on to your Congressional representatives, state officials, local board of education, PTA, local media, religious adviser, aunts, cousins, and so forth.
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INDEX OF RTTT & NCLB OUTRAGES
The Eggplant
i2: Innovative Innovators! (UPDATES)
by P. L. Thomas
Announcement and Updates
i2: Innovative Innovators*
FAQs
What is i2?
i2 is a venture designed to recruit and ...
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Outrage of the Day
Teacher Training's Low Grade
It is a disgrace that the media gives such an outfit such attention. But I say let the colleges of education, so long totally silent on critical issues, defend themselves. I'm ...
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INDEX OF OUTRAGES OF THE DAY
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"Under No Child Left Behind, states and school districts have unprecedented flexibility in how they use federal education funds."
—U. S. Department of Education, NCLB, Introduction
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A school rebellion bubbles over
For Texas lawmakers to do what they did in this session is akin to communists taking sledge hammers to the Berlin wall.
Credit parents with turning this tide.
We all know when a popular revolt succeeds. Someone gets overthrown. At what point, however, does a historic, full-scale rebellion take wing? Always hard to tell.
The revolt we discuss here involves bad policy and public schools. A climactic victory has yet...
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INDEX OF YAHOO, GOOD NEWS!
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Stupid Test Items
California History-Social Science Standards Test
A student teacher comments: The correct answer was a). That the word relocated in a question could possibly be paired with an answer that has freedom in it is a...
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Sarah's Notes
Mrs. Puglisi's 100 National Standards
by Sarah Puglisi
I just read a nice editorial about HOW RELIEVED a newspaper is if we have National Standards.
In the New York Times, you can read it
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INDEX OF SARAH'S NOTES
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