From Friday’s inbox…
Worth A Read
- Addiction to High Stakes Testing is Killing US Education
- Retooling Teach For America
- Low-Income Students In The CREDO Charter School Study
- Politicians Ignore Research, Say Smaller Class Size Makes No Difference
- The ‘Wave’ of Poverty Flows Through Schools
- What the Microsoft Culture Is Doing to Education
- Finland Rethinks Factory-Style School Buildings
- Public Education’s ‘Shock Doctrine Summer’ Rolls Out Once More
- Is ‘filling the pail’ any way to train teachers?
- Teachers’ Differing Views on Differentiated Pay
Addiction to High Stakes Testing is Killing US Education Posted: 10 Jul 2012 09:00 PM PDT
Jim Horn, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Cambridge College (MA), discusses the national curriculum standards project known as the Common Core, a recent blog by Diane Ravitch, and high-stakes testing.
Retooling Teach For America Posted: 09 Jul 2012 09:00 PM PDT
Jared Billings suggests increasing the TFA (Teach for America)…
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