Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Accountability and Testing: Systems of Educator Mistrust

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Accountability systems whether in education, business, or government are based on mistrust; a mistrust that those who are its subjects are u...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Do PISA Scores Really Mean Anything? Not Much!

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Do PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) scores really matter? One would think so, because every time the latest round of scor...
Friday, December 11, 2015

“After School:” Mobile SM App for High Schoolers Offers Potential Headaches for Educators

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Yesterday, I stumbled across this post on the Washington Post web site: “Millions of Teens Are Using a New App to Post Anonymous Thoughts, a...
Friday, November 27, 2015

Blogo: An Easy-to-Use Blogging App for the Mac

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I have waited quite some time for a blogging app for my Mac. I’ve used several, but my personal favorite is Blogo. Blogo provides Mac users...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Chief State School Officers Continue to Believe We Can Test Our Way to Equity

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Somehow I am not surprised at all that the Council of Chief State School Officers still believe that we can “test our way to school equity.”...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

Accountability and Testing: Distorting Teaching, Learning, and Public Education

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To continue my critique of the “accountability and testing regime,” I have been thinking about what the ultimate goals of those whose faith ...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Pursuit of Better Classroom Data: Is It Improvement of Teaching or of Classroom Surveillance?

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Perhaps there's a truth here about accountability and testing that we have ignored: the use of standardized testing, value-added models,...