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Matt Renwick

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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      Matt Renwick on 02 Feb 15
       
      Quote from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island)
  • 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.
  • 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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  • There is now minimal support from the research community for the use of annual test scores in teacher evaluations, often referred to as VAM.
  • When teachers begin losing their jobs based on test scores, how easy will it be to attract excellent teachers to schools with high degrees of student mobility and/or truancy? Who will want to teach English language learners with interrupted education, or students with emotional disabilities that make their performance on tests unpredictable?
Gerald Carey

The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago, but Germany is still divided - The Washington Post - 21 views

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  • Gerald Carey on 31 Oct 14
     
    A good site show how maps of different population data can be used to compare to formerly distinct populations
smilex3md

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."
smilex3md

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.
anonymous

Well Endowed By Our Creator: Did George Washington Really Invent Viagra? | text2cloud - 6 views

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  • anonymous on 27 Feb 12
     
    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.
Steve C

"To Bigotry No Sanction, to Persecution No Assistance" - George Washington's Letter to ... - 25 views

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  • Steve C on 10 Sep 10
     
    Washinton's letter to the Touro Synagogue
Michele Amato

The History Place - A New Nation - 53 views

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  • Michele Amato on 14 Mar 10
     
    The final timeline of the New Nation-The United States of America.
Michele Amato

The History Place - Conflict and Revolution 1775-1776 - 24 views

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  • Michele Amato on 14 Mar 10
     
    The next timeline site for 1775-1776.
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