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How to abuse standarized tests

danielwillingham.com - The insidious thing about tests is that they seem so straightforward. I write a bunch of questions. My students try to answer them. And so I find out who knows more and who knows less. But if you h...
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Astonishing Education Ignorance From the Star-Ledger

jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - I had promised myself (and Mrs. Jazzman) that I wouldn't blog on Easter. But then I picked up this morning's Star-Ledger, and read the most ignorant paragraph about education reform I have seen to ...
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Parent trigger law hasn't improved schools

latimes.com - More than two years after California's "parent trigger" law was enacted, things haven't worked out the way school reformers had planned or opponents had feared. In those heady days, it was expected...
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The Sham of Teach for America: Part One

education-radio.blogspot.com - Neha SinghalYou can download mp3's of the program here:Audioport (mp3)Internet ArchiveIn this week's show (Part One of a two part series), Education Radio continues to disrupt the dominant narrat...
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How Expanding Student Rights Undermined Public Schooling

theatlantic.com - Paralyzed by the threat of litigation, educators are often unable to strictly enforce rules. Robert Adrian Hillman/Shutterstock There was a time not too long ago when well-intended reformers though...
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The City of Sanford’s Racist Past

thedailybeast.com - The Florida town where Trayvon Martin met his death bears the name of its founder, a failed orange grower turned lobbyist who, in the 19th century, abetted a Belgian king’s bloody colonial adventur...
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NEW RULES OPEN DOOR FOR BIG DONORS IN S.D. ELECTIONS

utsandiego.com - The chance for wealthy donors or special-interest groups to spend large sums of money to influence San Diego’s elections has never been greater after a January court ruling that struck down several...
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Parting Ways - By Rich Lowry - The Corner

nationalreview.com - Anyone who has read Derb in our pages knows he’s a deeply literate, funny, and incisive writer. I direct anyone who doubts his talents to his delightful first novel, “Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dr...
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Sunday Late Night: Break Time for This Bear

firedoglake.com - Tonight’s Sunday Late Night will be my last until the end of this month. I’m taking a break from the WWW to travel east to tend to my mom’s independence in her own home, meeting with nursing aide a...
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The Real Reason for the Arts « Cooperative Catalyst

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Real Reason for the Arts « Cooperative Catalyst: The Real Reason for the Artsfrom Cooperative Catalyst » 5 questions about everything by John T. SpencerI watched a mediocre, meandering speech b...
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Easy money without govt. regs for ed start-up companies

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Congress has passed a bill making it easier for ed start-up companies to raise capital while at the same time, easing government regulation. The Jump-Start Our Business Start-Ups, or JOBS Act  woul...
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School Tech Connect: Again With the Constitution

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Again With the Constitution: Again With the Constitutionby noreply@blogger.com (Tim Furman)While it is absurd for anyone to think that Article XIII, Section 5 contains an invis...
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Demystifying math could ease anxiety

sfgate.com - Michael Macor / The Chronicle Dianna Trieu (left) and Tina Ye, sixth-graders at Roosevelt Middle School in San Francisco, work on geometry problems. Stanford researchers are studying math anxiety. ...
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Your Superintendent Focus Group Committee

saveseattleschools.blogspot.com -  There was this interesting tidbit at the bottom of the Superintendent Search page:Names of Candidates: The names of the candidates will be kept confidential until the second round of interviews f...
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instaGrok | A new way to learn.

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - instaGrok | A new way to learn.:instaGrokfinds age-appropriate educational content on any topic presented with interactive multimedia interfaces generates quiz questions based on student's research...
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The Real Reason for the Arts « Cooperative Catalyst

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Real Reason for the Arts « Cooperative Catalyst: The Real Reason for the Artsfrom Cooperative Catalyst » 5 questions about everything by John T. SpencerI watched a mediocre, meandering speech b...
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