Principal: Why I’m marching to ‘save our schools’
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This was written by Carol Corbett Burris, the principal of South Side High School in New York. She was named the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New York State.
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Was a NAEP geography test question poorly constructed?
Last week I wrote about the newly released 2010 geography scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which showed that students in fourth, eighth and twelfth grades don’t know a whole lot about the subject.
The post (which was excerpted in The Washington Post on Monday) included an eighth-grade question about the American Southwest that had been on the exam. Now, Candace Matthews, who has worked in the field of education and training for 35 years, has raised concerns about just how well drawn the test question actually was and what this may mean for other questions. Matthews now works for the federal government in the field of training.
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