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Nancy Bailey: There is No Need to Give NAEP Tests in Kindergarten!

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7January 22, 2022January 23, 2022

January 22, 2022January 23, 2022029

Experienced teacher Nancy Bailey opposes Michael Petrilli’s proposal to give NAEP tests to kindergartners. Petrilli, who is president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute...

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Laura Chapman on Michael Fullan

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7April 18, 2021April 19, 2021

April 18, 2021April 19, 2021063

I recently posted a long article by Michael Fullan that proposed a new paradigm for education reform. I found Fullan’s dismissal of the status quo...

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Ohio: Voucher Students Are Not Required to Take State Exams

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7April 17, 2021April 18, 2021

April 17, 2021April 18, 2021061

Apparently, the voucher schools were embarrassed by the Ohio study showing that kids who use vouchers lose ground academically. There were two ways to respond...

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Les Perelman: We Need an FDA for Educational Assessments

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7March 11, 2021March 12, 2021

March 11, 2021March 12, 2021077

Les Perelman, former professor of writing at MIT and inventor of the BABEL generator, has repeatedly exposed the quackery in computer-scoring of essays. If you...

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Who Signed the Pro-Testing Appeals?

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7March 5, 2021March 6, 2021

March 5, 2021March 6, 2021065

Education Trust, led by former Secretary of Education John King, sent two letters to the Biden administration, urging the administration not to allow states to...

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Is the edTPA a Valid Measure of Teacher Quality?

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7February 25, 2021February 26, 2021

February 25, 2021February 26, 2021075

Three researchers published an article in the Kappan that is highly critical of the edTPA, a test used to assess whether teacher candidates are prepared...

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Laura Chapman: When Bankers Lead Education “Reform”

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7February 21, 2021February 22, 2021

February 21, 2021February 22, 2021090

Our brilliant reader Laura Chapman, retired educator, decided to dig deep into the politics of education reform in Minnesota in response to a post about...

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Educators Everywhere See Chance to Ditch Exam Straitjacket

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7February 14, 2021February 15, 2021

February 14, 2021February 15, 2021076

The Financial Times reports on a new phenomenon: educators around the world see the pandemic as an opportunity to break free of standardized exams. Tony...

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Edutopia: What is a Good School?

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7February 12, 2021February 13, 2021

February 12, 2021February 13, 2021083

Edutopia reports on new research by Professor C. Kirabo Jackson of Northwestern University, who finds that a “good school” does much more than raise test...

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A Teacher in California: The Madness of Test Obsession

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7February 7, 2021February 8, 2021

February 7, 2021February 8, 2021074

A teacher in California, who must remain anonymous to protect her job, wrote this post. CAASP testing is the Common Core test produced by the...

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