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. ...
Education Reform
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 ...
#EdJourney Seeks the Future Now
Grant Lichtman's #EdJourney takes the reader to 60 innovative schools around the country, offering a contemporary glimpse of what will hopefully be more common approaches to education in the future....
Learning From the Full Experience
Walking a mile in someone else's shoes is a start, but even excellent teachers in high-needs schools need more than sympathy and a mantra of high expectations....
Petrilli: Everyone should get out of everyone else’s business
I just wrote a long post for my EdWeek blog about National School Choice Week. There were a few tangential items I wanted to address that didn’t fit into that post. I already posted a short piec...
In Search of Meg Whitman and Charter School Transparency
Meg Whitman brings great organizational management experience to the Summit Public Schools Board of Directors - or at least, I assume she would, but I couldn't find any meeting minutes showing she att...
Charter Schools and Segregation
The concept of choice is hard to argue with - everyone likes choice, and it shouldn't only be reserved for the wealthy; the execution of that idea in policy is a challenging proposition fraught with r...
Fundamental Attribution Error
A hopefully useful re-post from my InterACT blogging days. This morning’s general session at the ASCD conference featured a talk by Chip Heath, a Stanford professor and author (with his brother, Dan...
Greene: Testing is Not Accountability
Because after all, what else to kids need in life besides being proficient or above on a bubble test?...
NEA and AFT Will Stand With Teachers Who Resist Tests (Sometimes)
NEA and AFT tell The Washington Post they will support teachers who refuse to administer standardized tests - under certain conditions. ...