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Cynthia Wachtell: Public School Standardized Testing: Enough Is Enough for New York State Kids

2012-05-29T09:37:01Z

For public school children, it has been a long spring, shaped far too much by mandated testing. And the testing is not over.

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New York State Field Tests: Students Should Not Be Informed Of Connection To Standardized Exams

2012-05-25T16:27:32Z

A memo has recently surfaced in which the New York State Department of Education appears to encourage educators to mislead students about upcoming sta...

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FCAT Scores Fall For Some As State Drops Standards For More Passing Grades

2012-05-23T12:19:49Z

The portion of Florida third graders who could be held back jumped to 18 percent this year as a result of low scores on the state's rigorous new stand...

Read more: Reading Tests, Fcat, Florida Reading Tests, Florida Schools, Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Gerard Robinson, Fcats, State Mandated Exams, Standardized Testing, High Stakes Tests, Education News

John Merrow: Mixed Messages

2012-05-24T10:55:51Z

If we believe that education is "the next great civil rights issue of our time," then we ought to be enabling the 'human capital' now in the profession to succeed (while weeding out those who, after help, cannot cut the mustard).

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Are Teachers Prepared To Learn From Standardized Tests?

2012-05-22T15:50:34Z

These days, it's not enough for teachers to know how to manage a classroom, impart knowledge and deliver lesson plans.

In the wake of test-heavy po...

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William E. White: Education in America Serves No Purpose Today

2012-05-21T17:52:02Z

Americans have forgotten the reason why we educate children in America. As a result our children, schools, communities, and the nation are suffering.

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C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: In Search of Professionals - Singapore

2012-05-21T09:44:19Z

How does Singapore view the importance of a world-class teaching profession? How has its government responded? What progress has been made to date? What are Singapore's next steps to advance the teaching profession in the 21st century?

Read more: The Global Search for Education, C. M. Rubin, Singapore Education System, PISA Test, Standardized Testing, Education Reform, Global Education, Professional Capital, Andy Hargreaves, Michael Fullan, Singapore National Institute of Education, Professional Teacher Development, Teacher Pay, Teacher Recruitment, Timss, Pak Tee Ng, Education News

Todd Farley: Numbers Game

2012-05-17T10:48:40Z

The scores for the writing portion of this year's FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test) plummeted so precipitously that the abilities of the Sunshine State's student writers aren't being called into question, the very validity of those scoring statistics are.

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Amanda Krauss: Suppose They Gave a Standardized Test and Nobody Came?

2012-05-15T16:22:43Z

It is impossible for teachers to do their job in a system where their own assessments of students are inconsequential and their performance is judged on students' execution of questionable and secretly derived metrics.

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John Thompson: Remove Stakes From Standardized Testing to Strengthen Education

2012-05-15T11:42:22Z

Think of how the divisiveness in education would decrease if we borrowed from the Bill of Rights and adopted a code of ethics declaring, "No stakes shall be attached to standardized tests without the consent of the student or educator."

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New Jersey High-Stakes Test Will No Longer Ask 3rd-Graders To Reveal A Secret

2012-05-13T10:34:18Z

TRENTON, N.J. -- State education officials will no longer use a standardized test question that asked third-graders to reveal a secret and write about...

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Youth Radio -- Youth Media International: Kickboard For Teachers Encourages Data Collection In the Classroom

2012-05-10T13:39:41Z

By: Robyn Gee
“Be data driven, not data drowning,” is the slogan for Kickboard for Teachers -- an educational software, designed to h...

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Expert: American Scores 'Unacceptable' On National Science Exams

2012-05-10T10:00:53Z

About a third of eighth-graders who took a national science exam in 2011 were proficient, according to results released Thursday, a statistic called "...

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C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: In Search of Professionals - Part 2

2012-05-10T09:00:51Z

Today we continue the conversation with someone who understands better than anyone why professional excellence is one of the most vital investments we can make in our children's future: Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers.

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More Mistakes Found In New York's Error-Laden Exams

2012-05-09T13:26:05Z

The errors on New York's state exams just keep mounting.

Foreign language versions of the state math exams administered to third through eighth gra...

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Meryl Ain, Ed.D.: Teacher Appreciation Week: A Celebration of Caring

2012-05-08T10:59:59Z

There is not a magic bullet for education that can be imposed from the outside. Caring teachers, led by caring principals, have been and continue to be the solution.

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C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: In Search of Professionals - Part 1

2012-05-08T08:22:11Z

Here's a powerful challenge to the world of education: Improve the profession of teaching.

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J.D. Rothman: Calculator Shopping, the Night Before the SAT

2012-05-05T10:23:18Z

What time does Staples close, in case your child can't locate his TI-183 calculator the night before the SAT exam? What is the ACT?

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Can Sleeping Improve School Performance?

2012-05-03T00:00:01Z

In high school, Melissa Edwards woke up at 6:30 a.m. to catch a bus. It was dark, she was tired and the school's 7:15 a.m. morning bell forced the St....

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Major Test Prep Company Fraudulently Claimed Millions In Federal Tutoring Funds

2012-05-02T11:19:00Z

Federal prosecutors say The Princeton Review, a leading test-preparation company, fraudulently claimed "millions of dollars" of federal money for tuto...

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Uloop: Question About a Sleeveless Pineapple Raises Criticism for Standardized Tests

2012-05-01T15:59:54Z

The passage, modified from a fable by self-proclaimed "nonsense author" Daniel Pinkwater, is a parody of the tortoise and the hare story, in which the tortoise has been replaced by a pineapple.

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Nicholas Donohue: Remodeling Education: It Takes a Community

2012-04-30T17:04:46Z

Much has changed in the last 100 years, but not the way we look at K-12 education. Our system is outdated and the "one-size-fits-all" approach is no longer working and in need of remodeling.

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Sharon Duke Estroff: Making Sense of Your Child's Standardized Test Scores

2012-04-30T12:43:29Z

Coloring inside the lines didn't carry high stakes when we were kids. But for our children growing up in the era of No-Child-Left-Behind, coloring in ...

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Alan Singer: Pineapple That Ate Global History

2012-04-25T16:47:57Z

The fundamental problem with Common Core, the latest educational miracle solution that is being promoted by the National Governors Association and Pearson Educational, is that it is conceptually backwards.

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Kevin P. Chavous: The Pressure to Perform

2012-04-25T11:40:37Z

Kids don't get self-esteem without a sense of personal achievement, but they also don't build self-esteem by being pressured to perform for all the wrong reasons.

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