George Washington University applicants no longer need to take admissions tests - The W... - 20 views
Principal: What I've learned about annual standardized testing - The Washington Post - 36 views
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the Department of Education should not be “a national school board.
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to think that first-graders fluently reading would “cure poverty” is not only indefensible, it trivializes the great economic inequities that are the root cause of our nation’s greatest challenge.
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I have witnessed schools move from progressive practices such as inclusion, to the grouping of special education students with ELLs and other struggling learners into “double period” classes where they are drilled to pass the test.
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I pushed my pre-K students toward reading. And I feel guilty about it. - The Washington... - 20 views
Poor John Deasy. Like us, he liked new toys too much. - The Washington Post - 39 views
Risk and Reward | Theory and Practice - 30 views
High-achieving teacher sues state over evaluation labeling her 'ineffective' - The Wash... - 94 views
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VAMs typically measure correlation, not causation
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statistical black box
The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago, but Germany is still divided - The Washington Post - 21 views
Four decades of failed school reform - The Washington Post - 54 views
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A history of teaching/learning initiatives from a retiring teacher. "I saw countless reforms come and go; some even returned years later disguised in new education lingo. Some that were touted as "best practices" couldn't work, given Alexandria's demographics. Others were nothing but common-sense bromides hyped as revolutionary epiphanies. All of them failed to do what I believe to be key to teaching: to make students care about what they're studying and understand how it's relevant to their lives."
U-Va. MOOC finds high attrition, high satisfaction - The Washington Post - 14 views
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But some found that taking the online version and the U-Va. class simultaneously produced a “much heavier workload for them than they were accustomed to in their other courses,” according to Zelikow.
Well Endowed By Our Creator: Did George Washington Really Invent Viagra? | text2cloud - 6 views
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Can we use the current primary season to turn attention back to primary sources from U.S. History--the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the writings of the nation's first president? I'm trying to find a way to write about these matter that has a chance high school and college students. Thus, satire, parody are in the mix.
The History Place - A New Nation - 53 views
eduweb: portfolio - 65 views
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