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Added by Michael Keany on December 10, 2012 at 8:22am — 1 Comment
I was not worried about the American education system until after I started writing a column, because that's when I found out there are English teachers who assign my column as reading material. I regularly get e-mails from students asking about my use of anastrophe, metonymy, thesis…
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By Chester E. Finn, Jr.
As President of the AFT, the late Albert Shanker was instrumental in creating the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) and much else in the education-reform world. Now Randi Weingarten is trying—earnestly and imaginatively—to return the organization and its (present) leader to the pantheon of real reformers.
Their new and much-ballyhooed proposal, contained in a report…
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By Checker E. Finn, Jr. / December 6, 2012
A foundation staffer I think well of posed these vexing questions the other day:
With the transition to the new Common Core assessments, states will have a number of decisions around how they use the new tests. Some of the most consequential are around possible use of the tests for high school exit or grade promotion. These are obviously sticky subjects. Should we be…
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Is Favoritism Wrong?
In this thoughtful Chronicle of Higher Education article, philosophy professor Stephen Asma (Columbia College/Chicago) says the opposite of fairness is not selfishness. But that’s the way it seems when we hear children complain, “That’s not fair!” It’s easy for parents and teachers to see this as a thinly disguised attempt to get one’s way. “Kids learn early that an honest declaration of ‘I’m not…
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More on Problems with Value-Added Evaluation of Teachers
Why is there such a push to evaluate teachers using value-added analysis? asks Michael Marder (University of Texas/Austin) in this Kappa Delta Pi Record article. Because many governors, state education commissioners, and federal legislators have embraced these points:
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The Opportunity New York’s Dignity Act Presents by Mark Barth, author of the Social Emotional Development and Learning Guidelines which were adopted by the Board of Regents in July 2011. Mark received a Ph.D. from U Albany. His dissertation, The Role of a Solicited Public in Developing Educational Policy, was published by VDM Verlag in 2009. Now retired, Mark can be reached at… |
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The headline in a recent edition of Education Week read, "Hopes Pinned on Standards to Boost College Readiness: SAT results show no improvement in any tested…
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