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Mallorie Fagundes

Effects of the California High School Exit Exam - 3 views

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CAHSEE Cons Negative Effects Literacy

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  • Mallorie Fagundes on 26 Oct 10
     
    "Sean Reardon and Michal Kurlaender summarize the findings from a study investigating the impact of the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) on California's lowest performing students. [...] They found that the CAHSEE requirement has had no positive efects on students' academic skills" (quoted from the abstract).
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  • Justin Norris on 26 Oct 10
     
    Wow. This is an interesting read. I'm thinking about writing my research paper about the CAHSEE, so, thank you for this find!
  • Mallorie Fagundes on 27 Oct 10
     
    It was very interesting. I am writing mine on CAHSEE as well; maybe you and I can get together and discuss what we find. I was expecting to find positive articles for the CAHSEE possibly explaining why it is necessary, but I mostly found articles that rebut the CAHSEE.
  • Justin Norris on 28 Oct 10
     
    Yeah, same here. I just posted a website that shows the stats of the CAHSEE and how students have been doing on them since 2004. For every ethnicity, percentages have gone up every year since 04. Though it doesn't have anything to do with how effective the CAHSEE is in regard to literacy, it's still interesting to see. I'm sure there's a relationship with the improving scores and how the curriculum keeps changing in classrooms in order to focus on getting higher CAHSEE scores.
Mallorie Fagundes

California Department of Education - 1 views

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CAHSEE testing curriculum

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  • Mallorie Fagundes on 26 Oct 10
     
    Outlines the curriculum for California classrooms as well as the instruction for the CAHSEE.
Elvira Ledezma

Common Core Standards Initiative - Year 2010 (CA Dept of Education) - 0 views

www.cde.ca.gov/...yr10rel67.asp

shared by Elvira Ledezma on 06 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • articulated staircasing of student skills will help accelerate improvement in student performance and close the achievement gap," he said.
  • The rigorous, internationally competitive common core standards will help better prepare California students for success in the increasingly competitive global economy," O'Connell said.
  • By adopting such the common core standards, California can choose to look to the future and build upon what is the best of our own current – and considerable — standards with the best of what other states and high-performing countries offer their students.
Anthony Logan

Firing teachers can be a costly and tortuous task - Los Angeles Times - 1 views

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tenure collection Teaching

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      Anthony Logan on 02 Nov 10
       
      The most chilling part of this is that he kept his job after taunting this child (who already has issues of his own to deal with) and allowing others to join in on the taunting,
  • Anthony Logan on 02 Nov 10
     
    This is a very long collection of articles about tenure in California, and how difficult it is to fire a tenured teacher, even in the face of misconduct.
Kyle Dodson

District Summary of Fresno Unified - 1 views

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Education California Statistics

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  • Kyle Dodson on 18 Nov 10
     
    In case anyone is interested in more of a local glance at the public school system, this site offers statistics on every California District by gender, ethnic backgrounds, and by math and literacy numbers.
Shannon George

A Brief History of Tenure - TIME - 1 views

www.time.com/...0,8599,1859505,00.html

shared by Shannon George on 09 Nov 10 - Cached
  • The problem with tenure, Rhee and other critics say, is that it inadvertently protects incompetent teachers from being fired.
  • Each state has its own stories: A Connecticut teacher received a mere 30-day suspension for helping students cheat on a standardized test; one California school board spent $8,000 to fire an instructor who preferred using R-rated movies instead of books; a Florida teacher remained in the classroom for a year despite incidents in which she threw books at her students and demanded they referred to her as "Ms. God."
  • And despite more than a century of social progress, the need to protect teachers from the whims (or the tyranny) of the community remains as important as ever
  • Shannon George on 09 Nov 10
     
    The article includes the ways in which teacher tenure began, as well as a brief synopsis about the conversation it enters.
ameia sarkisian

District Selection Policies - Recommended Literature (K-12) (CA Dept of Education) - 4 views

www.cde.ca.gov/...litrlppolicies.asp

shared by ameia sarkisian on 03 Nov 10 - Cached
  • If a book is challenged, does the person who raises the issue have an opportunity to talk with the teacher or teacher librarian informally before any further steps are taken?
Ryan Williams

Unraveling the Myths of Accountability: A Case Study of the California High School Exit... - 1 views

This article focuses on all the negative affects on students and teachers using the CAHSEE exam. This article also describes how flawed the reasons the legislators give to enforce students to conti...

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started by Ryan Williams on 15 Nov 10 no follow-up yet
Michelle Arce

Winner of California Association for Bilingual Education Award Uses Carousel of IDEAS f... - 1 views

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  • Michelle Arce on 13 Nov 10
     
    Bilingual Education proves successful for some schools
anonymous

California Adopted the Common Standards—Sans Preface - Learning the Language - Ed... - 2 views

blogs.edweek.org/...fornia_adopted_the_common.html

CommonCoreStandards

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  • anonymous on 14 Jan 11
     
    Information about why CA did not adopt the preface to the Common Core Standards
anonymous

California Governor Puts the Testing Juggernaut On Ice - Living in Dialogue - Education... - 1 views

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Testing CA Education

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  • anonymous on 18 May 11
     
    Interesting article about Gov. Brown's vision for education.
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