Focus on Testing Reflects Eugenics Legacy
We are the inheritors of a complex history, some of it quite negative; the heavy stone of the American eugenics movement may have sunk to the bottom of the lake, but the ripples travel on whether or n...
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Reimagining Teaching: A Dialogue Continued
While useful for understanding the current context of the teaching profession, the discussion was short on details about how the profession itself might change in the future. Also worth noting - it wa...
Putting Our Trust in Students
When teachers are trusted to take student learning in new and exciting directions, they are in a position to extend that trust to students. It's a powerful step for those ready and willing to take it....
“Most Likely To Succeed”? New film points to promising changes in schools
A new documentary film, "Most Likely to Succeed," examines ways can improve schools and teaching to better prepare students for a future of rapid, almost unimaginable change....
Goldstein and Green Reimagining Teaching (Part One)
Dana Goldstein (The Teacher Wars) and Elizabeth Green (Building a Better Teacher) came to Stanford University to discuss "Reimagining the Teaching Profession" with Professor Linda Darling-Hammond....
Doc, We Feel Your Pain
A recent article suggests that the medical profession is becoming less appealing, less viable - and the reasons will sound familiar to teachers....
John Oliver Tackles Testing Mania
On "Last Week Tonight" comedian John Oliver takes a long, critical, and humorous look at nearly everything that's wrong with standardized testing in American schools....
Two, four, six, eight! Sorry tests are not that great!
If students can't do their best work unless adults hop, skip, strut, twist and shout about the test, we're doing something quite wrong in assessment, and in our messaging about education. ...
Crime and Punishment for Atlanta Educators
As a teacher, I do not tolerate cheating by my students, but I also take responsibility for creating assessment conditions that minimize cheating. Will any policy makers accept responsibility for the ...
Calexico, Just In Time
A Calexico album is like a great meal, with a variety of complex flavors that complement each other without being pretentious, well-presented and paced....