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"Voices across the country are raising concerns about the new Common Core State Standards. But if you listen carefully to the conversations, the main concern is not about the standards, themselves, but about the consequences of high-stakes tests attached to the standards. And those concerns are well-founded: Trying to implement ambitious goals for deeper learning through an outmoded testing model tied to a long list of punishments for children, educators, and schools is like pouring new wine into old bottles. It will certainly turn sour. The promise of these new standards -- and excellent education for all of America's children -- cannot succeed under the old accountability system because:"

This blog is the shared thoughts of school administrators that want to share best practices in education. All of the authors have different experiences in education but all have the same goal; what is best for students.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

May 29, 2014 As a doctoral researcher in the field of emerging literacies, I view the affordances brought about by the integration of digital technologies in education as a major game changer in the transformation of those basic literacy notions that have accompanied us since the emergence of the first signs of literacy (writing) 5000 years ago.

A critical view on the data we gather about the learners

An Indiegogo fundraising page for a data related book, but it offers some solid background on inBloom and a number of further-reading links on the issue of data, politics, edreform, and the rise and fall of inBloom

Thank you Nilda for starting the dialogue on this conversation as I am sure the state of New York will be soon to follow,

Thought this might be an interesting piece for the group to contemplate...