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Making Sense of Your Child's Standardized Test Scores

Sharon Duke Estroff | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Tests, Standardized Testing, Education, Parenting, School, Kids, No Child Left Behind, Parents, Standardized Test Scores, Criterion Referenced Tests, Norm Referenced Tests, Parents News

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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You Don't Know Everything When You're 16

Aleida Fernandez | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: High School Classes, College Lessons, High School Lessons, IB Program, IB Classes, IB Courses, Ib, Advanced High School Classes, High School Courses, Test-Taking, Tests, Exams, College News

It's a weird feeling for a 19-year-old realizing what you thought was right when you were 16, is not actually correct at all. I found this out the hard way this past week studying for my history midterm.

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Tradeoffs: Reduce Class Sizes Or Increase Teacher Pay?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Education News, Michael Petrilli, Class Size, Education, Arne Duncan, Randi Weingarten, Class Size Matters, New York City Teachers, Standardized Tests, Tests, Education Reform, Las Vegas Teachers, Education News

NEW YORK -- Every morning at PS 148 in East Elmhurst, Queens, teacher Monique Bertolotti greets her 27 third graders, who speak English as a second la...

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Teacher's Heavy Punishment For Students Saying 'Bless You'

Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Health Class, School Punishment, Religion, Education, Video, Vacaville, Religion in Schools, Health Education, Student Tests, California Schools, Schools, Tests, Vacaville California, Education News

When someone sneezes, it's common for a person in the vicinity to respond, "bless you." But for making that remark, students in Steven Cuckovich's ...

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75 Trillion Reasons Why U.S. Math Proficiency Matters

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Education News, Examinations, Economy, Math Performance, Harvard, Oecd, Barack Obama, Education, Poverty and Education, Education Policy, Kennedy School, Math Proficiency, Finland, Eric Hanushek, Tests, Pisa, Finland Test Scores, Naep, Education News

U.S. students rank poorly in proficiency on both domestic and international math exams, a problem that could cost the country $75 trillion over 80 yea...

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Under Immense Pressure, Educators Accused of Tampering With Tests

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Education News, Education, Arne Duncan, No Child Left Behind, Pennsylvania Cheating, Atlanta Cheating, The Philadelphia Public Schools Notebook, Standardized Testing, Atlanta, Education Reform, Educator Cheating, Tests, Education News

As Atlanta deals with the fallout of a report that exposed widespread, systemic cheating by educators on standardized tests, more and more such episod...

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The Dancing Parent: Grading Your Kid's Grades, Part 2

Leslie King, LCSW | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Parent, Kid, Dad, Grading, Children, Child, Raising Children, Mom, High School, Parenting, Tests, Evaluations, School, Grades, Education News

Let's take a look at why kids who may well have a realistic capacity to regularly receive top grades, yet who seem to be chronically underachieving.

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Five Ways to Ace College Exams

Perry Binder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Attorneys, Professor, Law, Lawyers, Humor, College, College News, Student, Tests, Law School, Teacher, Exams, Classroom, College News

Except on open-ended questions, professors are usually looking for some specific responses. Why make that professor search all throughout your flowery paragraphs for those answers?

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Limited Test Finds Dispersant Not Adding Toxicity To Oil, But Questions Remain

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Testing, Bp, Sea Turtles, Research, Toxic, Epa, Fda, Gulf Oil Spill, Coast Guard, Chemicals, Crab Larvae, Oil Spill, Shrimp, Noaa, Oil Dispersants, British Petroleum, Toxicity, Usda, Corexit, Tests, Gulf of Mexico, Wildlife, Green News

The combination of oil and dispersants is no more toxic to sea life than oil alone, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday after conduct...

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Supreme Court Rules That Black Firefighters Can Sue Chicago Over Tests

AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Firefighters, Scotus, New Haven, Hispanic, White, Black, Discrimination, Tests, Race, Asian, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday a group of African Americans did not wait too long to sue Chicago over a hiring test they challenged...

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Health Care Reform Is Smart Economics

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Canadian Healthcare, Washington, Health, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Universal Health Care, Tests, Health Care, Healthcare, Business News

The legislation benefits millions of people as well as the economy because universal health care is not just smart and fair social policy -- it is also smart economic policy.

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New Haven's White Firefighters Win Promotions

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP)-- A federal judge has ordered Connecticut officials to promote 14 firefighters who won a reverse discrimination case in a landma...

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Caster Semenya: Tests Reveal Sprinter Has Both Male, Female Characteristics

New York Daily News | By Oren Yaniv | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Semanya, Sexual Organs, Ovaries, Caster, Testes, Sprinter, Man or Woman, Gender, Is Caster Semenya a Hermaphrodite, Sports, South Africa, Track, Reproductive Organs, Track and Field, Male or Female, Caster Semenya, Tests, Iaaf, Semenya Hermaphrodite, Caster Semenya XXY, South African Hermaphrodite, Castor Hermaphrodite, Hermaphrodite, Caster Semenya Gender, Hermaphrodite Runner, Caster Semenya's Sex, Caster Semenya Hermaphrodite, South African Female Runner, South African Runner, World News

Tests show that controversial runner Caster Semenya is a woman ...and a man! The 18-year-old South African champ has no womb or ovaries and her testo...

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

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Test-Prep, Education, Post-Modern, Sidwell, Duncan, Obama, Tests, Interdisciplinary Curriculum, Politics News

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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Robots in Education

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arne Duncan, Education, Standards, Tests, Education Reform, Governors, National Press Club, Politics News

Engineers have made great advances in robotics in recent years. Everyday-robots can vacuum rugs and mop floors. More advanced models can act as secretary of education.

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International Comparisons: More Fizzle than Fizz

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Comparisons, Science, Tests, Math, Economy, Global Competitiveness, Home News

Principle 23 of the "principles of data interpretation" that organize "Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered," r...

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Is TIMSS Meaningful?

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internatonal Comparisons, Validity, Competitiveness, Tests, Economy, Global Competitiveness Report, Style News

The next round of Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study hits the street a week from today. It might be good to keep a few things in mind when considering the data.

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