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Monday, January 27, 2014

1-27-14 @ The Chalk Face

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@PARCCplace : More bang for the buck?
The PARCC folks and Common Core cheerleaders like to talk about the next generation of standardized testing.  Are these new tests worth the $29.50 per student cost? In my state of New York that would triple the cost of the current 3-8 testing program.  Of course we will also need to seriously upgrade technology in […]
NY State Senator George Latimer is my new Hero!
Although NY State Senator George Latimer isn’t a professional educator by trade, his perspective, vis-à-vis CCSS implementation, is spot on! This video is definitely worth watching, a few times. You have to love how he “slaps” the table for added emphasis!


Bad Journalism, Test-Mania, and High Education: “A Flabbergasting Reality”

About thirty years after the fabricated “the sky is falling” moment in public education—A Nation at Risk—we may be witnessing a similar dismantling of higher education in the U.S., as John Marcus overstates: On weekend mornings all this winter, anxious high school juniors and seniors will file into school cafeterias to sweat through the SAT, […]




1-26-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Richard Sherman’s GPA and “Thug” Label: The Codes that BlindRichard Sherman\’s GPA and \”Thug\” Label: The Codes that Blind. via Richard Sherman’s GPA and “Thug” Label: The Codes that Blind.1 by plthomasedd / 21min Doge Duncan, without comment.Much reforms!Filed under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk Face Tagged: doge, Duncan, reform1 by Shaun Johnson / 1h  All Week 1-