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Tony Searl

Conor Williams: Educational Productivity and the Reform Wars - 0 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 30 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • data difficulties in "some" cases hardly eviscerate a study of "more than 9,000 districts that enroll more than 85 percent of all U.S. students."
  • Poverty does not make productive, efficient education impossible.
  • Tony Searl on 30 Jan 11
     
    data was hard to come by in some districts, it was untrustworthy in others and controlling for all relevant variables when comparing school districts is really, really difficult.
Tony Searl

Gates and Pearson Foundations to Offer Online Courses - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 28 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • said the new course materials could provide an important link between the common core standards and the standardized tests that two consortia of states are writing
    • Tony Searl
      Tony Searl on 28 Apr 11
       
      oh noes
  • We could get a one size fits all.”
    • Tony Searl
      Tony Searl on 28 Apr 11
       
      no shit sherlock
  • Tony Searl on 28 Apr 11
     
    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest philanthropy, and the foundation associated with Pearson, the giant textbook and school technology company, announced a partnership on Wednesday to create online reading and math courses aligned with the new academic standards that some 40 states have adopted in recent months.
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