High Stakes Testing

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The "Achilles Heel" of Education Reform is Slashed by Michael Bloomberg

Dan Brown | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Education, Arne Duncan, Jennifer Medina, Michael Bloomberg, President Obama, High-Stakes Testing, New York Times, Standardized Testing, National Center on Teacher Quality, Teachers Union, Nctq, Education Reform, Teachers, Barack Obama, Politics News

High-stakes testing is a bullet train barreling through education reform; you're either on the train, on the sidelines, or waving your hands in franti...

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The New York Times Bizarrely Attacks Teachers -- Why?

Dan Brown | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Teacher Quality, Public Schools, Education, Arne Duncan, Michelle Rhee, Teacher Evaluation, School Accountability, New York Times, High-Stakes Testing, Teachers Union, Education Reform, Media News

The editorial page in today's New York Times takes a bizarre pot shot at teachers. Teachers are demeaned by the Times as a destructive force when it comes to developing systems that work in schools.

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The Teacher is the Key

Esther Wojcicki | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Standardized Testing, High-Stakes Testing, Learning Points Associates, Michelle Obama, Teaching, Gates Foundation, Nclb, Politics News

It sounds like an old adage, but we desperately need to support teachers in the classroom and modify the NCLB Act, which is now up for renewal. Supporting teachers is key to our success as a nation.

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Mass Teacher Layoffs in D.C. Amount To One Hell of a Power Play by Michelle Rhee

Dan Brown | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Rhee's mislaid battle of gutting the union and purging veteran teachers will leave an experience and institutional knowledge vacuum that no quantity of super-caffeinated 22-year-old Yalies can remake.

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Rethink Learning, Now

Sam Chaltain | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Education, Arne Duncan, Brown v. Board of Education, Equity, Sam Chaltain, Grassroots, Al Franken, High-Stakes Testing, Standardized Testing, Education Reform, Teaching, Fairness, Learning, Living News

Learning involves more than basic skills and regurgitating information. It requires higher-order skills and the capacity to digest, make sense of, and apply what we've been taught.

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"You're Either With Us or You're With the Status Quo": Privatization Supporters Push Obama to Pick Their Kind of Education Secretary

Dan Brown | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics

Wrap your arms around the testing mania of Joel Klein, or you're soft on accountability. Embrace Michelle Rhee's nuclear approach to administering schools, or you're a status quo-hugging wuss.

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David Brooks Made Me Wring My Hands: Obama and His Education Secretary Pick

Dan Brown | Posted 01.05.2009 | Media

In his most recent op-ed, David Brooks offers Americans a false choice between two distinct camps of education interests. Here's hoping our new president will sweep aside that brand of discourse.

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Exporting NYC's Education "Miracle": Buyer Beware!

Dan Brown | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, New York City Department of Education, John McCain, New York Sun, Michael Bloomberg, Achievement Gap, Bloomberg, Joel Klein, High-Stakes Testing, Education Reform, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Green, Politics News

Since his election in 2001, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has made narrowing the white-minority achievement gap in New York City his signature issue. After ...

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Illuminating Public Schools' Possibilities: "Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way"

Dan Brown | Posted 08.06.2008 | Living

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Aft, Education, Urban Education, Nclb, High-Stakes Testing, Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way, Teachers, Education Reform, Nea, Brian Schultz, Project Citizen, Living News

What happens when a teacher decides to disregard the canned standards and the stacks of test prep materials? Do the students wallow in ignorance, cheated out of a proper education by an "activist" teacher?

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