Education resources for parents, students, teachers & administrators
- Will the Data Warehouse Become Every Student and Teacher's "Permanent Record"?
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inBloom, the non-profit started with a hundred million dollar investment from the Gates Foundation, is planning to create a digital record which, barring catastrophe, truly could be a permanent record of every K12 studen... - Katie Lapham: Data Shows Not Enough Teaching
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I did some of my own data analysis to determine how many school days will be non-teaching for me this year. It does not include the amount of classroom time that was lost to preparing my students for state tests. That da... - Dystopia: A Possible Future of Teacher Evaluation
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This is a future I believe is possible given the systems and structures being promoted by technocrats like Gates. This is NOT the way the system has been described by Bill Gates or any of his representatives. They tend t... - Monty Neill: Building Effective Campaigns for Testing Reform
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Across the country, many local school boards, superintendents and principals have been speaking out against excessive testing. Parents, teachers, students and community groups should work with them to reduce the number o... - Monty Neill: Authentic Assessment as Part of a Testing Reform Campaign
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Across the nation, a rebellion is brewing against testing overuse and misuse. But just saying "no" isn't enough. In fact, high-quality feedback from assessment is vital to teaching and learning. Students, teachers and pa... - Monty Neill: Building a Successful Test Reform Movement
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Over the past few months, I've been involved in dialogues and public meetings aimed at furthering the testing reform movement. Our conversations focused on how to win key goals: less testing, lower stakes, and better a... - John Thompson: An Improbable Tale of Successful Reform
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Kirp then dissects the dramatic turnaround of the entire school system of Union City, New Jersey, and he shows how we can build great schools on the strengths of our democratic culture. Its answer did not come from techn... - Bill Gates' TED Talk: Are Video Cameras the Missing Link?
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Bill Gates has described himself as a technocrat, so perhaps it is natural that he would fixate on some piece of technology as the missing element. But the real things that are missing are the time that teachers need to ... - Will a Year's Delay Save the Common Core? A Response to Weingarten's Proposal
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Teachers - and union leaders -- may feel as if they should get on board, to try to steer this process. However, I think this is a ship of doom for our schools. I think its effect will be twofold. It will create a smoothe... - Rebirth: New Orleans -- Documentary Poses a Moral Dilemma
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this highlights for me, the moral dimension that Merrow ignores, when, at the end of the film, he proclaims this experiment a success. How can we accept that a third of the schools in New Orleans have been consigned to t...
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