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NYC School Principals Fight Back Against Recent State Test

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Klein | Posted 05.23.2013 | New York

Principals around New York City are fighting back against what they see as flawed state tests. A group of 15 principals from selective middle and h...

The Role of Fiction in the High School English Language Arts Classroom

Susan Pimentel | Posted 02.10.2013 | Home
Susan Pimentel

Said plainly, stories, drama, poetry, and other literature account for the majority of reading that students will do in the high school ELA classroom.

New Standardized Tests Coming Next Week

Posted 11.28.2012 | Home

Pennsylvania school districts are set to administer the first wave of new statewide standardized tests, which students must pass in order to graduate ...

Education Technology, Digital Learning Not As Easy As It Seems

Posted 11.15.2012 | Home

A report from the Alliance for Excellent Education identifies four key challenges that public school district leaders must address in the next two yea...

Education 'Insiders' Extremely Skeptical Of Positive Education Reform Post-Election

Posted 11.14.2012 | Home

Education consulting group Whiteboard Advisors recently conducted surveys of 50-75 anonymous political and policy “insiders” prior to and in the a...

Utah Withdraws From Consortium Developing Common Core Tests

Posted 08.07.2012 | Home

The Utah state school board on Friday voted 12-3 to withdraw from the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium -- one of two state-based consortia worki...

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics, or What's Really Up With Automated Essay Scoring

Todd Farley | Posted 08.08.2012 | Home
Todd Farley

Until the time comes that automated scoring engines can read and understand, the benefits of those systems seem quite limited to me.