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Bored Meetings: Eight Simple Ways To Stop Tedious Meetings Ruining Your Week - Bored Me... - 74 views

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http://www.ri.net/middletown/mhs/graduation/capstone_manual.pdf - 8 views

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Testing the Teachers - NYTimes.com - 79 views

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- Sara Thompson on 20 Apr 12
  
  assessment, yes; testing, no. There are plenty of other forms of providing data, such as portfolios.
  
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There has to be a better way to get data so schools themselves can figure out how they’re doing in comparison with their peers.
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- Sara Thompson on 20 Apr 12
  
  Does he actually think No Child Left Behind WORKS???
  
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If you go to the Web page of the Association of American Colleges and Universities and click on “assessment,” you will find a dazzling array of experiments that institutions are running to figure out how to measure learning.
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Some schools like Bowling Green and Portland State are doing portfolio assessments — which measure the quality of student papers and improvement over time. Some, like Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, use capstone assessment, creating a culminating project in which the students display their skills in a way that can be compared and measured.
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The challenge is not getting educators to embrace the idea of assessment. It’s mobilizing them to actually enact it in a way that’s real and transparent to outsiders.
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Sara Thompson on 20 Apr 12

There's an atmosphere of grand fragility hanging over America's colleges. The grandeur comes from the surging application rates, the international renown, the fancy new dining and athletic facilities. The fragility comes from the fact that colleges are charging more money, but it's not clear how much actual benefit they are providing.

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Facilitating Reflection: A Manual for Leaders and Educators - 5 views

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Student Contracts for Digital Projects - 115 views

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