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Roland Gesthuizen

Ravitch: No Child Left Behind and the damage done - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 59 views

  • with the active support of the Obama administration, the NCLB wrecking ball has become a means of promoting privatization and community fragmentation
  • NCLB cannot be fixed. It has failed. It has imposed a sterile and mean-spirited regime on the schools. It represents the dead hand of conformity and regulation from afar. It is time to abandon the status quo of test-based accountability and seek fresh and innovative thinking to support and strengthen our nation's schools.
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    "This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Deborah Meier on the Education Week website. Ravitch and Meier exchange letters about what matters most in education. Ravitch, a research professor at New York University, is the author of the bestselling "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," an important critique of the flaws in the modern school reform movement that she just updated."
Brianna Crowley

Critical thinking? You need knowledge | EducationNews.org - 3 views

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    Diane Ravitch pushes back on the waves of educational initiatives that dismiss the importance of building a body of knowledge for students to think critically about and problem-solve with. 
Ed B.

Bridging Differences - Education Week - 60 views

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    Diane Ravitch
Steve Ransom

Bridging Differences: Should Teacher Evaluation Depend on Student Test Scores? - 19 views

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    Great blog post by Diane Ravitch
Steve Ransom

Principal: 'I was naïve about Common Core' - 4 views

  • The promise of the Common Core is dying and teaching and learning are being distorted.  The well that should sustain the Core has been poisoned.
  • Whether or not learning the word ‘commission’ is appropriate for second graders could be debated—I personally think it is a bit over the top.  What is of deeper concern, however, is that during a time when 7 year olds should be listening to and making music, they are instead taking a vocabulary quiz.
  • Real learning occurs in the mind of the learner when she makes connections with prior learning, makes meaning, and retains that knowledge in order to create additional meaning from new information.  In short, with tests we see traces of learning, not learning itself.
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  • Teachers are engaged in practices like these because they are pressured and afraid, not because they think the assessments are educationally sound. Their principals are pressured and nervous about their own scores and the school’s scores. Guaranteed, every child in the class feels that pressure and trepidation as well.
  • I am troubled that a company that has a multi-million dollar contract to create tests for the state should also be able to profit from producing test prep materials. I am even more deeply troubled that this wonderful little girl, whom I have known since she was born, is being subject to this distortion of what her primary education should be.
  • The Common Core places an extraordinary emphasis on vocabulary development
  • Parents can expect that the other three will be neglected as teachers frantically try to prepare students for the difficult and high-stakes tests.
  • They see data, not children. 
  • Data should be used as a strategy for improvement, not for accountability
  • A fool with a tool is still a fool.  A fool with a powerful tool is a dangerous fool.
onepulledthread

Why I Cannot Support the Common Core Standards | Diane Ravitch's blog - 5 views

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    Useful critique that argues that the national common core standards should be voluntary, not mandatory, since they have been developed within a corporate context that required such standards as a condition of eligibility for "race to the top" funds, and that it is unclear whether these standards will have positive or negative effects on students--they just haven't been tried enough to justify them as "national" or "mandatory."
A Gardner

Yong Zhao: How PISA Misleads the World | Diane Ravitch's blog - 48 views

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    Yong Zhao: How PISA Misleads the World http://t.co/6DpRO4UxZ4
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    Yong Zhao: How PISA Misleads the World http://t.co/6DpRO4UxZ4
Jason Schmidt

dianeravitch.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) - 25 views

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    In case you missed Steve Hargadon's interview with Diane Ravitch on October 26, 2010.
Siri Anderson

The Myth of Charter Schools by Diane Ravitch | The New York Review of Books - 78 views

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    This is the best response I've seen to this film. A must read for those invested in maintaining public education in America.
Chema Falcó

The Myth of Chinese Super Schools by Diane Ravitch | The New York Review of Books - 37 views

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    Fascinating article.
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