Category: High-Stakes Testing
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In the bid for a better education for all students in America, recent reform efforts have focused on increasing the expectations – standards and exams – for students. What is not explicitly discussed are the negative ways that these standards and exams target students of low socio-economic status and minorities – we are enamored as…
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Happy Birthday César Chávez! Often education “reformers” toss around civil rights as a justification for their “reforms.” See for example Reframing the Refrain: Choice as a Civil Rights Issue. If he were still alive today, how would César Chávez have weighed in on the school “reform” movement? I pose several questions about hot topics in education reform— then I…
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Take a listen to our live radio conversation from Tuesday 2/11/14 about vouchers, charters, testing and accountability. For part 1 of the conversation click here and for part 2 click here. The conversation goes for about 15 minutes. Thanks to the NEA for tweeting about the conversation. A few tweets: https://twitter.com/NEAMedia/statuses/433354171266240512 https://twitter.com/NEAMedia/statuses/433353859012886528 https://twitter.com/NEAMedia/statuses/433353709393686528 https://twitter.com/NEAMedia/statuses/433350741432877056 https://twitter.com/NEAMedia/statuses/433349888852504576 Please…
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To understand the success and failures of public education in United States and Texas (as measured by achievement tests), I ask the following research questions in this post: How do the nation’s public schools perform on the NAEP over the past several decades? Were kids actually smarter 30 years ago in the U.S? Also, how…
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High school exit exam requirements are impacting a growing number of U.S. students, particularly low-income students and students of color. This peer-reviewed article examines policy and legal landscape of exit testing policy in order to shed light on some of the key issues facing local school leaders charged with implementing these policies. The article first…
Cloaking Inequity 
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