Common Core State [sic] Standards
BRT Letter to Republican National Committee Supporting Common Core State Standards
For chapter and verse on the Business Roundtable leadership role in education reform, see The rest of the story...
INDEX OF COMMON CORE [SIC] STANDARDS
Data Command Center
Rebirth of the Teaching Machine through the Seduction of Data Analytics: This Time It's Personal (April 2013)
NOTE: An edited version of this article will appear in the next edition of the ATA Magazine (Summer 2013) [Alberta Teachers Association]. Elements of this piece will also for...
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INDEX OF DATA COMMAND FORCE
Commentaries
Getting Slammed
Robert Rendo, a nationally certified teacher who won't shut up, offers unique art to bring home the education reform message. ...
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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
DIBELS Abuse in Tennessee
Ohanian Comment: I received this message from a Tennessee mom. It is a reminder that DIBELS is still used to abuse children. Richelle Deharde said she is happy for her na...
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INDEX OF RTTT & NCLB OUTRAGES
The Eggplant
U. S. Youth Engage in Arne Duncan's Favorite Season of the Year
Some students taking the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment test found themselves suddenly logged out during the test; others discovered that the test would not accept correct answers. "I was k...
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Outrage of the Day
Chicago School Closings--Largest in US History
by Susan Ohanian
The education of Chicago schoolchildren has been hijacked because, taking a page out of his neoliberal playbook, that's what mayor Rahm Emanuel wanted. At the sa...
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INDEX OF OUTRAGES OF THE DAY
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Quotes
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Pearson is confident that the NYS Grades 3-8 English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics assessments have been developed to support valid and reliable interpretations of scores for their intended uses. . . .
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[T]he owl declares that 'Pineapples don't have sleeves,' which is a factually accurate statement. This statement is also presented as the moral of the story, allowing a careful reader to infer that the owl is the wisest animal. . . .
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— Jon S. Twing, Pearson Chief Measurement Officer, 4/22/12
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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
Regarding Kirk McDonald's Sorry, College Grads, I Probably Won't Hire You (op-ed May 10): Mr. McDonald, I ...
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INDEX OF LETTERS
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Yahoo, Good News!
16-year-old honor student expelled from her high school after igniting a chemical explosion receives a full scholarship to U.S. Space Academy, courtesy of a NASA vet who, as a teen, was accused of sta
Three cheers. It's good to know that Homer Hickam is as decent a man as his book portrays. You can read about Homer Hickam at Wikipedia.
by Staff
Tthe 16-year-old honor student expelled from her high school after igniting a chemical explosion receives a full scholarship to U.S. Sp...
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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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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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Cartoon
Common Core Approach to Literature
illustration from The New Yorker blog
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/05/canon-fodder-denouncing-the-classics.html?mbid=nl_Daily%20%28250%29
INDEX OF CARTOONS
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Research that Counts
Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren
So we get more evidence that technology might not be the miraculous game-changer in school achievement that some people claim. We might even extrapolate that human connections ...
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INDEX OF RESEARCH THAT COUNTS
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