Comments posted by nitajo
To tap or type? When planning a high access environment, an important question is tablets or laptops? Tablets, especially iPads, have received a lot of attention recently. They're great for some things, but I still think of tablets as consumption devices and laptops as production devices. Some kids can type on a tab but if teachers want kids to write a lot and to produce media, they need a keyboard. Chromebooks have the instant on and long battery life of tabs but with a full keyboard and the functionality of a laptop.
Speaking to the Texas State Board of Education late last month, Scott said that the mentality that standardized testing is the “end-all, be-all” is a “perversion” of what a quality education should be.
What’s more, he called “the assessment and accountability regime” not only “a cottage industry but a military-industrial complex.” And he attacked the Common Core Standards Initiative as being motivated by business concerns.
Elementary School Survey
http://www.bridgingthegapresearch.org/research/elementary_school_survey/
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Board member Jay Means asked whether some dropouts were disguised as homeschool students.
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| I would very much like those numbers. I hope that we are not using that as an instrument ... to skew the data. -- Jay Means |
We are looking at whether they are really doing what it says on the side of the tin. We are looking at what evidence there is in NSW, not overseas. Just because it works in Wisconsin doesn't mean it is working in Gunnedah. -- Ken Boston
Multilit
It includes reading accuracy, fluency, comprehension, vocabulary and spelling.
http://www.multilit.com/
The core message of Carmichael’s book is that McDonogh15 began to improve only after it freed itself from outside management and assistance and found the strength within its own staff, students, and community to teach and learn authentically. -- Joanne Yatvin
McDonogh 15: Becoming a School by Lucianne Bond Carmichael
State officials have instead chosen to use one English test to assess every high school student in the state, which has caused another fairly gigantic problem: How do you create a single graduation exam for 200,000 seniors when some are heading to the Ivy League and others to pump gas?
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