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Bipartisan agreement on two disastrous ideas
In a commentary in Education Week, Marc Tucker, Linda Darling-Hammond, and John Jackson write that Democrats and Republicans agree on two things for ESEA reauthorization: continued grade-by-grade testing, and sanctions exclusively for the lowest-achieving schools, which primarily serve low-income and immigrant students. The authors feel these provisions virtually guarantee the overall performance of our students…
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Opening the student-data floodgates
To prepare for assessments aligned with the Common Core State Standards, districts across the country are investing in software to analyze individual student performance in detail, reports Natasha Singer in The New York Times. The company inBloom wants to speed introduction and lower the costs of these assessment tools by standardizing data storage and security. inBloom's open-source code could facilitate universal apps,…
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Making a School Into a Community of Leaders
(Originally titled “The Time Is Ripe (Again)”)
In this thoughtful article in Educational Leadership, leadership guru Roland Barth explains why teacher leadership hasn’t taken off:
First, principals want to be in control. “If I, as a principal, delegate or accept a teacher’s leadership of something and it goes badly,” says Barth, “…the superintendent isn’t going…
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The Power of a Museum Visit
In this Education Gadfly article, Dara Zeehandelaar reports on a recent study of school field trips. Researchers gathered data on 11,000 Arkansas students in grades K-12 – half took a one-hour tour of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and half remained in their schools. Several weeks after the field trip, students took a quiz and here were the results:
• Students who visited the museum…
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Does the Common Core Mandate Specific Works of Literature?
In this Education Gadfly article, Chester Finn addresses the concern that the Common Core ELA standards are dictating the use of certain books. There’s recently been a flap over Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, which is included in the 11th-grade list in Appendix B of the standards…
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CONDOLEEZZA RICE trained to be a concert pianist. Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, was a professional clarinet and saxophone player. The hedge fund billionaire Bruce Kovner is a pianist who took classes at Juilliard.…
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By Valerie Strauss, Published: October 9
Washington Post…
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There's a troubling undercurrent to the national conversation about the black-white gap in student achievement. The (mostly) unspoken belief about black students is tied to broader…
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