8 ways to fight high-stakes testing.
January 23, 2013
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- Rahm: 'You're gonna respect me! You're gonna respect me!' -- For what? March 6, 2015
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- Retired delegates elected to IEA RA.- Fred Klonsky, SORE President The Illinois Education Association was founded in 1853. It became an affiliate of the National Education Association in 1857. In 1966 the NEA and the African American American Teachers Association merged. We also merged in Illinois. The NEA essentially removed administrators from leadership and became a union in 1970. Over the […]
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- Taking Five Minutes Off From PARCC
- Peoria Story
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- @NJSBA and PARCC: Going Along to Get Along?
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- 2015-2016 Sabbatical Applications on-line – due 3/17
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- Peter Greene: David Brooks Gets Everything Wrong (Again)
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- Will You Accept This High-Performing Seat?Philly KIPP principal Ben Speicher and I chat about The Bachelor, the charter school backfilling debate and the evolution of KIPP… EduShyster: You and I happen to have in common two passions: our shared love of the TV show, The Bachelor, and a strong belief that charter schools should play by the same rules that […]
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- Bogus 'Parent Trigger' petition rejected by Anaheim boardLast month I wrote about an attempt in Anaheim, CA to privatize the management of another public school, using the so-called Parent Trigger law.The law, which turns parent against parent in a community, gives a temporary majority, who are willing (often cajoled) to sign a petition, the power to hand their public school over to a private company. That company […]
- Bogus 'Parent Trigger' petition rejected by Anaheim board
If you haven’t read this I recommend you do. http://books.google.com/books/about/The_reign_of_ETS.html?id=BWJHAAAAMAAJ It’s hard to get a hold of. It’s scarcity may be due to the content and it’s revelations about the ETS’s history. It retells how mass testing was more reflective of the discriminatory and racist views that prevailed at a time when testing was being touted as a time saver and allowing of “proper” placement of individuals into jobs that they were “best suited for.”