What parents say testing is doing to their kids
This was written by Carol Corbett Burris, 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.
By Carol Corbett Burris
The politicians who believe in using tests to judge schools and teacherswill tell you that their efforts are designed to help our nation’s children. How odd it is, then, that they never ask parents what they think. While testing expands like a balloon in the lives or our youngest students, there is no curiosity about what cannot be recorded on the scantron sheet.
In order to find out what was on our parents’ minds, a group of New York principals created a short survey to give parents and teachers an
Justin Bieber’s hilarious high school commencement
This may be 2012’s funniest commencement speech — if that’s what you want to call it.
Ellen DeGeneres, on her television show “Ellen,” put on a commencement ceremony for teenage superstar Justin Bieber, who really did just graduate from high school.
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Ellen DeGeneres, on her television show “Ellen,” put on a commencement ceremony for teenage superstar Justin Bieber, who really did just graduate from high school.
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