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Digital Alternatives to Test Preparation - Assignment - 0 views
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My quandry is with the approach that our legislators take on pitting public and private schools against each other when what we should be doing is working cooperatively to build a better, stronger community of learners that will lead us into a successful future for all.
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How can we participate better in this dialogue? How do we participate now? What do we envision our participation being, lets say in the reauthorization of NCLB?
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I believe that the creation of teams of teachers, principals, researchers, students, and parents to review, give feedback, and design changes to NCLB would serve as a more successful approach to problem solving the current educational "crisis". When I have a problem to solve I take the grass roots approach, go to the source, research and reflect on the information, I never pretend to know it all. First hand accounts and dialogue are crucial in developing productive change.
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creating a complete picture of our students and our schools with standardized testing being one aspect, but no the only measurement tool.
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why are we as a nation submitting the results of one method of testing
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Interesting NPR program on the effects on high NCLB
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Digital Alternatives to Test Preparation - Persuasive Essay Draft - 1 views
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threat of graduation and remediation classes
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has creativity, critical thinking skills, communication skills, collaboration skills, information and media literacy, and life skills.
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I would suggest "demonstrates" rather than has. I also think that one of our greatest challenges in schools - teachers, leaders and students - is coming to some common understanding of what these terms mean, especially in the 21st century. For example, our understanding of collaboration is probably all over the board from "works in groups" to uses social networking sites to connect with other experts.
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And the great majority of teachers participating in the study believed that students engaged in high level work and benefited from extensive learning.