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Andrew Cuomo: Why He Loves Charters and Despises Public Schools by Diane Ravitch
Added by Michael Keany on March 15, 2014 at 9:45am — No Comments
The EdTPA Assessment Test By Linda A. Kellner
The EdTPA Assessment Test
By Linda A. Kellner
I have now spent the last seven months working closely with students in two local universities who are completing the edTPA assessment in order to achieve New York State Certification in Education. I have provided workshops, seminars, and support sessions and worked with individual students to clarify some of the prompts and questions in the document they have to complete. Please note, as supervisors we are not permitted to…
Added by Michael Keany on March 14, 2014 at 9:44am — No Comments
Correcting SAT isn't the answer - USA Today Editorial
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5 Ways to Encourage Child Creativity by Lisa Nielsen
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How Does PISA Put the World at Risk (Part 1): Romanticizing Misery by Yong Zhao
How Does PISA Put the World at Risk (Part 1): Romanticizing Misery
by Yong Zhao
9 MARCH 2014
PISA, the OECD’s triennial international assessment of 15 year olds in math, reading, and science, has become one of the most destructive forces in education today. It creates illusory models of excellence, romanticizes misery, glorifies educational…
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Common Core and Planning: Organizing a Unit of Instruction by Todd Finley
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Researcher: Most “Common Core-Aligned” Textbooks Are Shams from Diane Ravitch's blog
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Common Core: Guilty by Association...or Just Guilty? By Peter DeWitt
Common Core: Guilty by Association...or Just Guilty?
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Diversity: image and reality by Annie Murphy Paul
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There's Power in the Collective Voice: NYEDChat, The Voice of NYS Educators
It was less than a little over one year ago, that I began to explore Twitter as a professional development tool. For a decade before joining this conversational platform I explored the strength of connected voices through collegial circle and listserv conversations. Little did I realize how social media could strengthen…
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Building A Community of Writers
Within every human soul is the gift of writing, whether we believe this is so or not. Everyone has a thought deep inside. Some thoughts explode on paper and some through oral communication. Others do not surface because of a lack of confidence in the writing process. As an educator and a proponent of writing, I have always encouraged others to have their voice take flight. …
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The Teacher As An Awakener
An interesting quote by Robert Frost passed through the Twitter and Pinterest networks recently that started me thinking about the role of the educator in this time of challenge and change. …
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Accountability and Motivation By Marc Tucker
Accountability and Motivation
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College President: SAT Is Part Hoax, Part Fraud by Leon Botstein
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Foreign Language Acquisition
Greetings to all! I am happy to join School Leadership 2.0. My name is Nicole Weaver , and I teach high school French and Spanish. I currently live in Littleton ,Colorado. I love my job and I also derive great joy writing children's picture books. My books are unique in that they are written in English, French , and Spanish with all three texts on each page.
Here is a sample page from my newly published book, My Brother Is My Best Friend.…
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Race to the Top-Equity and Oportunity? by Christopher Wooleyhand, Ph.D.
President Barack Obama recently announced a new initiative called Race to the Top-Equity and Opportunity. The aims of the program are admirable. The President wants to support states and districts in identifying and closing educational opportunity and achievement gaps (http://www.ed.gov/racetothetop-equity-opportunity). The President, like many politicians and educators, recognizes that we need to do more to ensure that all… Continue
Added by Debbie Wooleyhand on March 9, 2014 at 4:55pm — No Comments
A quick piece about reading, addressed to all teachers
Strange but true, our Education Establishment has managed to keep almost every bad idea about reading in play.
Remember that, circa 1935, the official dogma in the United States was that every child should memorize every English word as a DESIGN. This was known as Look-say. It was completely insane. This official hoax has suffered many slings and arrows. But the amazing thing is that it’s still alive, a little…
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When Education Is But a Test Score By Michael V. McGill
When Education Is But a Test Score
- Ed Week
I've come to think that a school superintendent's main mission today is to protect teachers and kids from the ideological madness around us. If I can keep education reform from "helping" them, I'll have…
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The false tradeoffs of test scores, creativity, and happiness by Brandon Wright
The false tradeoffs of test scores, creativity, and happinessBrandon WrightFordham Foundation |
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Save Us From the SAT by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Save Us From the SAT
MARCH 6, 2014
NY Times
Jennifer Finney Boylan
BELGRADE LAKES, Me. — I WAS in trouble. The first few analogies were pretty straightforward — along the lines of “leopard is to spotted as zebra is to striped” — but now I was in the tall weeds of nuance. Kangaroo is to marsupial as the giant squid is to — I don’t know, maybe D) cephalopod? I looked up for a second at the back of the head of the girl in front of me. She had done this amazing thing… Continue
MARCH 6, 2014
NY Times
Jennifer Finney Boylan
BELGRADE LAKES, Me. — I WAS in trouble. The first few analogies were pretty straightforward — along the lines of “leopard is to spotted as zebra is to striped” — but now I was in the tall weeds of nuance. Kangaroo is to marsupial as the giant squid is to — I don’t know, maybe D) cephalopod? I looked up for a second at the back of the head of the girl in front of me. She had done this amazing thing… Continue
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