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Tag: Standardized Testing

AP / Gerald Herbert

Income Inequality Goes to School

By Bill Boyarsky —

Countering the efforts of educational reformers—including President Obama and his Race to the Top crew—to blame teachers for student failures, researchers are finding that the growing gap between the affluent and the poor is the real villain.

Posted on Feb 24, 2012 READ MORE | 44 COMMENTS

AP / Seth Perlman

10 States Get a Pass on ‘No Child Left Behind’

It’s one of the most maligned domestic relics of the George W. Bush era, and now President Obama has stepped in to let 10 states off the hook, at least for the time being, from the experiment in educational standardization known as “No Child Left Behind.”

Posted on Feb 9, 2012 READ MORE | 4 COMMENTS

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Taking ‘Bad Teacher’ to School

By Marcia Alesan Dawkins —

Let’s be honest. Teachers don’t get into the profession for the money. Nowadays they don’t get into the profession for respect either. So why do they do it?

Posted on Jun 26, 2011 READ MORE | 29 COMMENTS

AP / Jeff Gentner

Schooling Scholars on Classroom Success

By Moshe Adler —

There is of course no doubt that our public education system is broken. There is also no doubt that wages are too low. But blaming “bad teachers” is not the answer to either.

Posted on Aug 20, 2010 READ MORE | 29 COMMENTS

Flickr / alamosbasement

A Teachable Moment From an Esteemed Teacher

At a time when our country’s educational system is sliding down our government’s priority list, it takes reminders like this one, by noted California educator Jim Mamer, to set us straight and offer some much-needed inspiration.

Posted on Jul 12, 2010 READ MORE | 13 COMMENTS

AP photo / Carlos Osorio

The Rebirth of Education

By Paul Cummins —

A friend of mine, J.M. Zimmerman, once stated that to revitalize our schools, engage our children and ultimately save our planet will require “the death of education and its rebirth.” Sometimes systems are so flawed that they need to be scrapped and replaced rather than fiddled with or fixed.