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Posts tagged high stakes testing

The NY Times Tires of Testi...

The NY Times Tires of Testing

A post by Diane Ravitch prefaces a NY Times editorial that finally acknowledges that testing has become a “mania.”   Writes the Times’ editorial board: “Testing did spur some progress in student performance. But it has become clear to us over time that testing was being overemphasized — and misused — in schools that were […]

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Teachers’ Letters to Bill Gat...

Teachers’ Letters to Bill Gates

Educators from the US and beyond have been invited to teaching stories with Mr. Bill Gates. They’ve been asked: “How have the policies of the Gates Foundation influenced your classroom, your students, your teaching, your schools, and your communities?” Here’s the title of one letter: Every single one of my students “failed” the state test […]

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Why We Need a Moratorium on the High Stakes of Testi...

Why We Need a Moratorium on the High Stakes of Testing

The president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, called late last month for a moratorium on the high stakes attached to new Common Core-aligned standardized tests. (You can read about that here.)  Here’s a piece in support of that call, written by Jeff Bryant, an Associate Fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future , who happens […]

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Education is Not Like Toothpas...

Education is Not Like Toothpaste

As the policy debates over education “reform” continue, some of the key underlying issues – competing worldviews – are starting to emerge clearly. The first public introduction, last July, of Governor Snyder’s[Michigan’s governor] advisory panel on the school funding law provided one perspective (see upcoming article). They view their charge as making sure money follows […]

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