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It's Time to Use Test Scores to Determine Teacher Pay

Randy Turner | Posted 05.08.2012

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Randy Turner

Let's base 100 percent of teacher pay on the results of standardized tests. But if we are to have true educational reform, a concept that seems to be lost when used by those who claim that mantle, I want the following conditions:

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In Push For More College Grads, 'Very Profitable Nonprofit' Cashes In

| Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 04.30.2012

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This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. The national push to increase the number of Americans with college degrees is enriching at...

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Scared Sleepless

John Merrow | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Learning Matters, Pbs, Education, Pbs Newshour, Test Prep, Standardized Testing, Cheating, John Merrow, Education Reform, Testing, Education News
John Merrow

"My son can't sleep at night." Why? "Because his teacher told him that he had to do well on the tests this week or she would be fired.." Scaring the sleep out of a child is surely an example of distortion and corruption. So too is firing people based on the snapshot of one day's bubble test score.

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What the Monster Wrote: How Will the College Board Grade a Well-Written Endorsement of Evil?

Eliot Schrefer | Posted 04.01.2012

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Eliot Schrefer

What would the College Board do with an essay that gave it exactly what it asked for as far as structure and writing quality, but took as its topic something truly monstrous?

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A Modest Proposal to Save Test Prep

John Merrow | Posted 03.26.2012

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John Merrow

When California Governor Jerry Brown recently called for fewer standardized tests and less time on test preparation, he probably expected to be praised. Instead, his proposal has been greeted with cries of outrage from teachers, administrators, and students.

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SHSAT Is the Golden Ticket

Alex Mallory | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: New York City Public Schools, Public Schools, Test-Prep, Stuyvesant High School, Tutor, Tutoring, Shsat, College News
Alex Mallory

For many students in New York City, the less well-known high school exam, the SHSAT, may be the most important standardized test of their academic careers.

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Pricey ACT, SAT Test Prep Classes May Not Be Worth It, Experts Say

Posted 05.25.2011

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The anxiety of high school juniors -- and their parents -- over taking college-entrance exams is creating a market force for the test-prep industry. D...

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The Ruinous Culture We've Created in Elementary Schools

Shaun Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elementary School, Standardized Testing, Test-Prep, Teacher-Preparation, Adequate Yearly Progress, Shaun Johnson, K-12, Shawn Johnson, Ayp, Education News
Shaun Johnson

With high-stakes standardized testing, this is the educational culture we've created. Seeing schools in test-mode is an observation in a disheartening obsession with quantitative values.

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Cablevision Offers Free SAT Prep As Incentive

New York Times | Jacques Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the latest sign of the premium that society places on an elite education, and the lengths some will go to get a leg up in securing it, Cablevision ...

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Educating for Democracy: David Brooks' "Race to Insanity"

Joel Shatzky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joel Klein, Test-Prep, School Closings, Diane Ravitch, Race to the Top, New York News
Joel Shatzky

Blaming the unions for "rigidity," as Brooks does, is almost a "blame the victim" charge since educators are well aware of the subjective nature of good learning.

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Lost Premier Hits Web Before TV: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer February 3, 2010

Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shelly Palmer

Last night was the scheduled premier of the final season of Lost. However, a sneak preview of the mysterious show was held Monday night in Hawaii a...

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Needed: People Who Quit

Susan Ohanian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Test Prep, Education, Arne Duncan, Nclb, Standardized Testing, Curriculum, Kindergarten, Race to the Top, Gates Foundation, No Child Left Behind, No Child Left Behind Reauthorization, Politics News
Susan Ohanian

In October, 2009, former Marine officer Matthew Hoh resigned his senior Foreign Service post in Afghanistan because he feels the war is pointless and ...

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Shouldn't Every Child Have an Education Like the President's Daughters'?

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gerald Bracey

The president sends Malia and Sasha to a post-modern school focused on the personalization of learning. Isn't it time that every family in the nation has the same opportunity?

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