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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...
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 ...
The billion dollar question for Arne Duncan: Why has testing become the driver in school reform?
blogs.ajc.com - Here is a post to start off the month of April from Peter Smagorinsky, distinguished research professor of English education at the University of Georgia. Smagorinsky is the author of several inter...
Bill Gates Seems To Think Teaching Is Like Writing Computer Code
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - In an interview with NPR today, Bill Gates: said if Microsoft didn’t have evaluations, “it wouldn’t have worked.” He said that seniority and educational degrees didn’t correlate with “who was writi...
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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Arne Duncan on school reforms: 'What will your next excuse be if you have enough money?'
mlive.com - RELATED: Experts: Performance, politics keep districts from using federal grant to convert struggling schools to chartersRELATED: Study: Districts failing to make dramatic changes with federal scho...
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...
Success Academy Family Handbook (Only Available in English): An Expert's Guide to Manipulation How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Teachers Unions and Each Other NYC Educator: A Fine Day for a Sellout Is Tenure a Strike Issue?Moskowitz Aims Char
ednotesonline.blogspot.com - What better proof for all the ills of many charter schools, but especially those under Eva Moskowitz than this handbook for parents from Eva's scam factory, accused of trying to avoid Spanish speak...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Pinterest vaults into third place for social networks, ahead of LinkedIn and Google+, report says
mercurynews.com - Pinterest has become the third most popular social network in the United States, behind only Facebook and Twitter, a marketing-research report has found.An Experian Marketing Services report found ...
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 04/08/2012
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com - What Fuels the Most Influential Tweets? - Jared Keller - Technology - The Atlantic Great article from the Atlantic summarizing information on research about what makes influential tweets...
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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...
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...
NJ Spotlight | NJ's First Virtual Charter School a Screen Test for Online Learning
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NJ Spotlight | NJ's First Virtual Charter School a Screen Test for Online Learning: NJ's First Virtual Charter School a Screen Test for Online Learning Despite questions over funding, enrollments ...
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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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Early Evening Posts 4-8 #SOSchat #p2 #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Will an Oakland school district initiative slow teacher turnover, or make it worse? - ContraCostaTimes.com Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 54 minutes ago Will an Oakland school ...