Showing posts with label standardized tests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label standardized tests. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

NAEP Scores Fall, Arne Duncan Says Nothing To See Here

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Heckuva job education reformers: For the first time since 1990, the mathematical skills of American students have dropped, according t...
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Sunday, August 23, 2015

PDK/Gallup Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Reject Test-Based School Accountability

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Lyndsey Layton in the Washington Post: Americans overwhelmingly think there is too much emphasis on standardized testing in public schoo...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015

How Andrew Cuomo's "Reformy" Teacher Evaluation System Keeps "Great Teachers" Away From Schools That Serve The Most Vulnerable

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Back in 2013, education reform organization StudentsFirstNY called for a strengthened teacher evaluation system to help ensure that every c...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015

Opt Out Poses Serious Threat To Elites

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You can hear how threatened the elites are by the Opt Out movement in the shrillness of this NY Times editorial attacking opt out as "a...
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Friday, July 10, 2015

MaryEllen Elia And Her "Conversations With Parents"

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From Politics on the Hudson: “I’m a teacher, I’m an educator and I’m not a politician,” Elia told reporters Thursday. (Video was provided...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Contradictory Findings On Testing, Teacher Evaluations In New Quinnipiac Poll, But Not On Charter Schools

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The Quinnipiac poll out this afternoon finds New York City voters are opposed to evaluating teachers via test scores 57%-37%. It also fin...
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Monday, May 11, 2015

National Urban League, On The Gates Payroll, Pushes Testing

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From a Daily News piece touting low opt out numbers in the state's urban areas: “We need annual assessments to ensure that every chil...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Jeb Bush: Baltimore Riots Are Call For Florida-Style Education Reform In Baltimore

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Following in the footsteps of ed deformer Jeanne Allen, who tweeted that the Baltimore riots were a call for more charter schools, Jeb Bush...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

LoHud Editorial: What Really Needs To Be Done To Fix New York's Teacher Evaluation System

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The LoHud editorial board nailed the APPR teacher evaluation sham Cuomo's pushing in this editorial that just went up. Here's the ...
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Monday, December 15, 2014

NYSED Commissioner John King Vows To Bring The Chaos, Confusion & Anxiety Of New York's Common Core Roll-Out To A National Audience

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From Jessica Bakeman at Capital NY: ALBANY—Outgoing state education commissioner John King hopes to help school leaders in other states ...
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Sunday, November 2, 2014

Vote NO On Cuomo's Smart Schools Bond Act

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Gary Stern at LoHud does a great job of giving both sides of the Smart Schools Bond Act story. Here's why critics are opposed to Cuomo...
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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Cuomo Plans To "Strengthen Teacher And Principal Evaluations" In His Next Term

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After taking some criticism for not giving much of an inkling of what his second term plans are, Governor Cuomo released a 240+ page plan fo...
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Friday, August 15, 2014

De Blasio, Farina Full of Shit On Test Scores

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The lede of this Eliza Shapiro piece at Capital NY: Mayor Bill de Blasio and schools chancellor Carmen Fariña on Thursday praised the sli...
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Thursday, August 14, 2014

You're A Winner If You Predicted A Slight Increase In NY Test Scores

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As many of us predicted, NYSED and the Board of Regents rigged the state testr scores this year to go up slightly so they could point to ...
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Sunday, August 3, 2014

Common Core Proponents Change Bar For Success

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Remember when Common Core proponents used to brag about having 45 states and D.C. on the Common Core bandwagon? Now they say they'd be...
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Friday, July 4, 2014

The Hubris, Arrogance And Authoritarianism Of Common Core Proponents

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Some of the comments on Jay Greene's Common Core Political Naivete and the Enemies List post get at this: "The main problem has...
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Thursday, July 3, 2014

But Isn't The College/Career Readiness Metric All About Test Prep, Chancellor?

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Eliza Shapiro at Capital NY got an interview with Carmen Farina in which the NYCDOE chancellor gives more details on her plans to improve t...
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Monday, June 23, 2014

No Wonder The Parcc Consortium Has Lost So Many States

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A comment left at the Worcester Telegram and Gazette: Why it may not be a great idea to take PARCC this year: 41% of students who took...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Regents Grading

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Bleary-eyed teachers in different places around the city are grading Regents exams this weekend - including this bleary-eyed teacher at Perd...
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Friday, June 20, 2014

Open Thread: Regents Exams

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I'm proctoring Regents exams during the day and grading the ELA exam at night and this weekend. It's a hectic week. How's yo...