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Holding my fingers back, regretfully
I’d love to type a few hundred words on the major testing story in Florida this week, the Department of Education’s acknowledgment Wednesday that they blew the scores on last year’s tests. But here’s why I haven’t: This summer I’m teaching in Sarasota Wednesday evenings, and all that afternoon and evening I was either prepping, […]
Stop the presses: Conservative blasts merit pay!
Fordham Foundation guy-at-the-podcast Liam Julian criticizes merit pay in a Tallahassee Democrat op-ed. Oh, wait: he’s criticizing payments to students based on test scores, not teachers. Julian argues that the distinction between the two is in the difference between the roles: “Teachers are doing a job and students are receiving a service.” Two points here: First, […]
Florida NRT scores
Today, the Florida Department of Education released the scores from this spring’s norm-referenced testing in reading and math. The basic story: nothing clear. Some scores went up slightly in terms of percentile rank, some went down, and a number stayed about the same. The spin from the department is that the state’s percentile rank is […]
New podcast for Accountability Frankenstein
New podcast (finally!) at Accountability Frankenstein. It’s about 4 minutes long (what will be close to the average length), and it has a trivia contest. Go, listen! You might win a copy of the book if you can answer the question correctly!
Bankrupt my pants and tags, NCLB news, and old-fashioned American ambivalence
By Sherman Dorn on June 2, 2007
One of my English friends created a not-quite-acronym in spring 2006 that adequately describes the phenomenon of having been too busy to read one’s blog roll, a translation from been away, not catching up on the flist [friends’ list, one’s blogroll on Livejournal], point me at it if there’s anything you need me to see […]
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