Rigorous Young Adult Literature or "Dumbed Down" Classics?

A Defense of Standardized Testing

In this Education Gadfly article, Kathleen Porter-Magee and Jennifer Borgioli list four “fundamental misunderstandings” in the arguments made by opponents of high-stakes testing:

• Myth #1: Teachers’ instincts should guide instruction. Critics of test-driven accountability say we should just let teachers teach – that standardized testing wastes instructional time, distracts teachers…

Busted, Chastened, and Enlightened

In this Kappa Delta Pi Record article, retired Missouri educator Julia Frank Hundman recalls how her seventh-grade English teacher, Mrs. B., once asked students to write a poem of their own. “It seemed to me that love, angst, and all sorts of turmoil were requirements for good poetry,” says Hundman. “I was a happy-go-lucky, superficial kid and just not sure what to do with those emotions.” She ended up copying…

Defining Bullying Down

By EMILY BAZELON

NEW HAVEN

THE March 3 death of …

Opinion: Why America demonizes its teachers

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How to Shop for College

Colleges often make themselves appear less expensive — and more attractive to cash-poor families — through promotional materials and financial aid letters that hide the true…

Response to NC State Super's Justifying Massive Increase in High Stakes Tests

Another Student-Involved Assessment Experiment 

Inspiring Others

Teaching the last backpack generation

By Zachary Walker on March 6th,…

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Does Sorting Students Improve Scores? An Analysis of Class Composition

By Amber M. Winkler

THE EDUCATION GADFLY WEEKLY

A wise wonk once wrote that the biggest challenge facing America’s schools is the enormous variation in the academic level of students coming into any given classroom. The subject of this NBER…

Motivational Style as a Key Consideration for Leaders

“Do you play to win – or not to lose?” ask social psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson and Columbia University professor Tory Higgins in this intriguing Harvard Business Review article. “People answer these questions in very different ways, and that’s the challenge at the heart of good management – whether you’re managing your own performance or someone else’s.” [Although this article is…