Common Core State [sic] Standards
Backer of Common Core School Curriculum Is Chosen to Lead College Board
Stephen Krashen Comment: Not quite what I was trying to say: Comments about the Common Core Standards and Tests
I was quoted in an article in the NY Times ab...
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INDEX OF COMMON CORE [SIC} STANDARDS
Commentaries
A Michigan Educator Has a Few Questions About Those NAEP Science Scores
Mindy Nathan is Dean of Adult and Alternative Education for the Berkley School District,a suburb of Detroit. Her school, Tri-County Educational Center, is an alternative high school program that dra...
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INDEX OF COMMENTARIES
Duncanisms
Ask the Teachers
America's teachers are hungry for comprehensive reform to their profession. . . ....
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INDEX OF DUNCANISMS
Gerald Bracey tributes
21st-Century Skills: Ban It, or Rename It?
Ohanian Comment: I put "rename 21st century skills" into Google and this is what came up. I didn't look at author but just started reading, enjoying the letter more and ...
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INDEX OF GERALD BRACEY TRIBUTES
RTTT & NCLB Outrages
The Worst Eighth-Grade Math Teacher in New York City
Ohanian Comment: The tragedy is that although it's easy to measure Carolyn Abbott's "value," this is not the case for other teachers receiving low "credit" for wha...
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INDEX OF RTTT & NCLB OUTRAGES
The Eggplant
ASCD and Pearson Debut New Online Professional Development Tool Principal Compass
by Cindy Lutenbacher
Press Release:
New Online Platform Aligned to Robert Marzano's Framework for Principal Growth and Development
Philadelphia, PA...
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Outrage of the Day
Grand Test Auto: The end of Testing
Ohanian NOTE: Take the lead metaphor to heart and you'll see the prediction that soon all kids will come with barcodes. . . Later the metaphor changes to GPS devices in ...
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INDEX OF OUTRAGES OF THE DAY
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Quotes
"Obama is great at co-opting his critics' arguments even if he doesn't take to heart their policy suggestions. It's an excellent strategy for cornering his critics and closing off the political space that critics of standardized tests have carved out for themselves in the often confounding education debate."
—Julianne Hing, ColorLines, 3/31/11
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NCLB In Your Face
Ask About the Administration's Suggestions to Revise the ESEA
You can borrow Stephen Krashen's fine questions for the Administration. Send them in! Use them for newspaper op eds. Share them with your PTA.
by Kent Will...
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Resisters' Letters
To the editor
I can speak with personal experience regarding a fallacy in Michael Benjamin's piece, The War o...
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INDEX OF LETTERS
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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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MORE TESTITEMS
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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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