Category: Wisdom

  • The school-to-prison pipeline refers to the policies and practices that push school children, particularly low-socioeconomic and racial/ethnic minority youth, out of classrooms into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Critically, school failure for these youth appears to be driven by inadequate and persistently low-performing schools, disproportionate disciplinary and school suspension practices, and the combination of…

    The latest on the School to Prison Pipeline
  • Originally posted on deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog: In a letter issued around May 12, 2016, to professor Celia Oyler regarding Oyler’s publishing three “live” PARCC items on her blog on May 07, 2016, PARCC, Inc., CEO Laura Slover wrote the following as part of a warning email to Oyler: Parcc, Inc. is the owner of…

    If PARCC, Inc., Is the Owner of PARCC Items, Produce the Document Proving It
  • Email from PARCC CEO Laura Slover, sent to me and others by Prof. Celia Oyler, who writes at celiaoyler.wordpress.com and who published a post referencing three “live” PARCC test items for grade 4: 5/12/16 Dear Professor Oyler: I am writing to respectfully request that you remove all of the material reproduced from the PARCC assessments reproduced…

    PARCC CEO to Prof Who Posts “Live” Test Items: Reveal Your Informant
  • I think the students in our leadership and education policy classes at California State University Sacramento (scholarly and academic purposes) and the readers of Cloaking Inequity (news reporting) will be very interested in this new, ongoing case study where a PARCC, a testing company, is trying to limit the fair use of copyrighted material. Here is…

    Can @PARCCPlace BAN You From Seeing?
  • Leaving UT-Austin for a full professor position at California State University Sacramento was a big life change in 2014. In my new role as Director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership I sit on the leadership team of the College. As a result, I am often a sponge for operational information. I was struck by two…

    Dear Diary: Are leaders born or made?

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