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Monday, July 7, 2014

7-7-14 Schools Matter All Week

Schools Matter:







Kindergarten Achievement Tests Before Kindergarten
Riverdale and Horace Mann are now using a new test to make sure that only kids who can afford IPads and tutoring get in. Could you pass the test? Which flag completes the pattern?






7-6-14 Schools Matter All Week
Schools Matter: Ravitch Waves Goodbye to Common Core "Testing" and Throws Kisses to Dennis and RandiI read both of Diane Ravitch's books that she wrote after her conversion experience and subsequent surrender of her honored chair with the boys at Hoover/Koret/Fordham, and I kept looking to find out the real history of American corporate education reform, the one that Diane had ignored in