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"Standardized testing is the worst thing that could have happened. You're producing scientists that think every experiment has perfect answers."

—Reid Walker, Colorado biology teacher

NCLB Outrages

Are we testing kids too much?
Ohanian Comment: It is sad to see educators making such claims for standardized testing. Actually, I was saddened the first time I read this. Then I r...
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INDEX OF NCLB OUTRAGES

The Eggplant

Obama Chooses Education Deputy In Charge of Change
Another item in the news you will see nowhere else. President-elect Barack Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs has announced that Grayson Stupl, ...
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NCLB In Your Face

Vermont Independence Convention 2008
Susan Ohanian Notes: I spoke at the Vermont Independence Convention on Nov. 7, 2008, on usurpation of the
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Outrage of the Day

Philly mayor under fire for threatening libraries

This is the city where they
built, with Microsoft guidance, a big, new,
whoop-de-doop $46 million School of the Future
without books, so the mayor is followi...
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INDEX OF OUTRAGES OF THE DAY

Commentaries

Obama's betrayal of public education? Arne Duncan and the corporate model of schooling
from Truthout, Dec. 17, 2008

This is packed with information teachers should take to heart. For starters, ...
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INDEX OF COMMENTARIES

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In The News

Scholars Boycott Annual Meeting of National Communication Association
by Robin Wilson More than 300 members of the National Communication Association are boycotting the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel, in San Diego, where the assoc...
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INDEX OF NEWS ITEMS

Resisters' Letters

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INDEX OF LETTERS

Outrages

Federal Court Defendants Joel Klein & Ray Kelly: Our Education Mayor remains silent about police abuses of students in public schools
Hentoff, who for decades has chronicled school abuses, says that not until the Bloomberg/Klein regime has he seen such flagrant dereliction of accountabilit...
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INDEX OF FEATURED OUTRAGES

Sarah's Notes

Baaaaccckkkk To School
Ohanian Comment: For a glorious combination of sound and sight and wonderful teaching, read A Day in the Life for Septemb...
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INDEX OF SARAH'S NOTES

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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MORE TESTITEMS

Research that Counts

Storybooks On Paper Better For Children Than Reading Fiction On Computer Screen, According to Expert
This is definitely worth thinking about, and do the promoters of virtual schools, virtual texts, virtual lives, give any indication they are thinking aobut i...
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INDEX OF RESEARCH THAT COUNTS

Special Needs Commentary

More about Murray's Articles

Charles Murray's articles have provoked numerous responses most of which state that measuring IQ is not an exa...
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INDEX OF SPECIAL NEEDS COMMENTARIES

Special Needs News

Students, teachers weigh in, as 'Left Behind' up for renewal

Kay's Comment: So many issues to debate and so little agreement on any of them ... Perhaps NCLB should not be reauthorized just because it has raised so many questi...
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INDEX OF SPECIAL NEEDS NEWS

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Phi Delta Kappan is the the most important professional journal for education, bar none. It addresses policy issues for educators at all levels, providing a forum for debate on controvers...
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Ohanian Comment: The hometown newspaper that has studiously ignored the WOO finally pays tribute to accomplishment. On July 29, The WOO held its 2006 GED Graduation & St...
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