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Rick Beach

Testing mandates flunk cost-benefit analysis - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 0 views

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shared by Rick Beach on 30 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Rick Beach on 30 Jun 12
     
    Smagorinsky nails the real origins of NCLB testing as a $20 billion cost to states that profit the testing/textbook companies.
Sheri Edwards

Leading Scholar's U-Turn on School Reform Shakes Up Debate - NYTimes.com - 10 views

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shared by Sheri Edwards on 03 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Arthur E. Levine, a former president of Teachers College, where Dr. Ravitch got her doctorate and began her teaching career in the 1970s. “Now for her to suddenly conclude that she’s been all wrong is extraordinary — and not very helpful.”
  • In 2005, she said, a study she undertook of Pakistan’s weak and inequitable education system, dominated by private and religious institutions, convinced her that protecting the United States’ public schools was important to democracy.
  • She remembers another date, Nov. 30, 2006, when at a Washington conference she heard a dozen experts conclude that the No Child law was not raising student achievement.
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  • Testing had become not just a way to measure student learning, but an end in itself.
  • Sheri Edwards on 03 Mar 10
     
    "Testing had become not just a way to measure student learning, but an end in itself. "
  • Sheri Edwards on 03 Mar 10
     
    New View -- Expert changes her mind
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