How can we fix U.S. high schools? Stop using ‘covered wagon’ model - The Hechinger Report

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Ted Dintersmith spent most of his career as a venture capitalist, but became both fascinated and outraged by education when he watched what was happening to his own children in school. “I felt it was almost as if school was designed to crush the creativity out of my kids,” said Dintersmith, who decided to devote […]

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Whipping people into line - Dangerously Irrelevant

from Dangerously Irrelevant http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2015/05/whipping-people-into-line.html
Sir Ken Robinson said: It’s not the need for standards. It’s the way they play out. . . . testing is not some benign educational process. It is a multibillion-dollar industry that is absorbing massive time, resources and cash that could be used for other things. Its a massive profit-making machine. . . . You [...]

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Let’s be honest about annual testing - Dangerously Irrelevant

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Let’s be honest: students and parents obtain no tangible benefit from large-scale annual testing. Kids and families give up numerous days of learning time – both for the tests themselves and for the test prep sessions whose sole purpose is to get ready for the tests – and for what? The data come back too late [...]

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There’s no diagnostic value in locked-down summative assessments - Dangerously Irrelevant

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Diane Ravitch said: It’s totally inappropriate to compare opting out of testing to opting out of immunization. One has a scientific basis, the other has none. The tests that kids take today have nothing to do with the tests that we took when we were kids. When we were kids, we took an hour test [...]

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Newark: Students Stand Up Again - CURMUDGUCATION

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Are government officials trying to intimidate parents who resist testing? - Answer Sheet

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Tens of thousands of parents in a number of states have decided this spring to opt their children out of high-stakes standardized tests aligned to the Common Core and similar standards, and as that movement has grown, so has pushback from administrators. Now, government officials, both state and federal, are sounding off on the issue, […]








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Choose Privacy Week 2015: CPW Activities Around the United States - Choose Privacy Week

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Libraries and schools around the country are observing Choose Privacy Week 2015 with a variety of activities.   Here’s a sampling of what libraries are doing:   The Multnomah Public Library will observe Choose Privacy Week on Saturday, May 2 with “Is Privacy an Option?” a talk led by Mark Alfino, professor of philosophy at  Gonzaga University. […]

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