Teachers just never know (By Roger Conway)
Valued Reader Roger Conway weighs in with a great letter, For all the words spoken and written about education “reform” and all the bloviating about teacher benchmarks and evaluations, very little is said about what and how teachers feel. And part of the reason for this is that teachers keep their most important feelings about what […]The post Teachers just never know (By Roger Conway) appeared fi
The list of towns (Part 2) misleading parents on the Common Core Test grows…
As Connecticut superintendents work overtime in their effort to implement Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor’s directives, many local school administrators are sending out letters that try to highlight the “silver lining” of having students take the Common Core Smarter Balanced Field Test. For example, administrators in Granby wrote, This is an exciting opportunity for our school. […]The post Th
3-15-14 Wait What? All Week
Wait What?: Wait What? All WeekCommon Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test of a Test delayed a weekAs teachers and school administrators learned on Friday, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test isn’t (quite) ready to be given. Years in the making and the consortium behind the absurd Common Core test informed partner states on Friday that things would not be ready to go thi