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Friday, August 9, 2013

8-9-13 SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE

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Innocence or Guilt?: Looking Beyond the Individual | the becoming radical
How does Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader inform the many scandals in the education reform era? READ: Innocence or Guilt?: Looking Beyond the Individual | the becoming radical.


State Assessment Results: "It Just Doesn't Matter"
Reblogged from SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Even though we opted our oldest out of the third grade state assessments last year, an error occurred and her blank math test answer form was scanned and sent on to the New York State Education Department.  As a result, we received a Parent Report from NYSED […]
  
Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face
SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Who’s Lying to Whom? Duncan, Bloomberg, and the Rotted Common CoreYesterday Mike Bloomberg called the new test score basement that all NY schools have rushed into “very good news,” and he blamed the media for noticing that it was happening.  With State and City schools–at least the ones with poor kids–once more crushed under the boot (Rochester had 5% of kids passi