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Laura Shaw

Yong Zhao » Blog Archive » Ditch Testing (Part 5): Testing Has Not Improved E... - 0 views

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YongZhao Testing Atlanta Cheating

shared by Laura Shaw on 25 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Arne Duncan’s proposal to “reward excellence” and push to directly connect teacher and principal evaluation and their income will only increase the stakes in testing, and will likely provide more incentives for cheating.
  • we may see high performing schools participate in cheating in the future because they now have a reason to want to score well to be rewarded for “being excellent while before they only have to pass to avoid failure, which their students already do.
  • high-stakes testing
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  • we have to abandon it
  • broader issues of high stakes testing
  • its costs are too high and the benefits too little.
  • since 2002, the federal Department of Education has provided $400 million every year to states for implementing NCLB assessments—which amounts to $4 billion over 10 years. But that’s just the federal portion for NCLB required tests. The actual cost is much higher.
  • These billions of dollars have also led to other costs that cannot be measured. They have been used to direct resources in schools to preparing for tests and managing reporting, for example. This means schools have lost opportunities to consider other forms of activities that may be more beneficial to their students.
  • most serious and well-documented costs are the loss of opportunities for students to have access to a broad range of educational experiences as well as the opportunity to develop the ability and skills that truly matter in the 21st century such creativity and global competence.
Laura Shaw

Reading Between the Lines | The Nation - 2 views

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TheNation NCLB money testing

shared by Laura Shaw on 15 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • a political party that once called for the abolition of the Education Department has radically enhanced the federal presence in public schools. After repeating the mantra of local control and states' rights for a generation, the GOP now intrudes on both.
  • original aspirations for an American public school system
  • public schools were necessary to fashion a common national culture out of a far-flung and often immigrant population, and to prepare young people to be reflective and critical citizens in a democratic society. The emphasis was on self-governance through self-respect; a sense of cultural ownership through participation; and ultimately, freedom from tyranny through rational deliberation.
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  • One of the reform movement's founding documents is Reinventing Education: Entrepreneurship in America's Public Schools, by Lou Gerstner, chairman of IBM. Gerstner describes schoolchildren as human capital, teachers as sellers in a marketplace and the public school system as a monopoly
  • among those who style themselves "compassionate conservatives," education has become a sentimental and, all things considered, cheap way to talk about equalizing opportunity without committing to substantial income redistribution
  • "Child-centered" education, "progressive" education or "whole language"--each has been singled out as a social menace that can be vanquished only by applying a more rational, results-oriented and business-minded approach to public education.
Laura Shaw

Kids today really are less creative, study says - parenting - TODAY.com - 3 views

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creativity testing NCLB research

shared by Laura Shaw on 13 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • creativity declines in adulthood as we become more aware of the notions of right and wrong answers, she said.
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