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Tomorrow’s news
Looks like the Aspen Institute’s NCLB commission will be presenting its recommendations tomorrow in a live webcast, though I’m not sure if the 9:30 a.m. start time is EST or MST. Update: In the comments, Aspen Institute staff note that the starting time is 9:30 a.m. Eastern time, right at the end of a class for […]
First page proofs of Accountability Frankenstein corrected
I misunderstood some of the directions on sending back corrections of page proofs, so finishing the first set of page proofs took a few extra hours I didn’t anticipate today. But I’ve sent the corrected PDFs back to the publisher, so Accountability Frankenstein is one more step to publication.
Ugly arguments against NCLB
There are plenty of ways I can criticize NCLB and its implementation, but to whine that it drains resources for the gifted is one of the more disturbing arguments I’ve read (and today’s story by Joseph Berger isn’t the first time it’s appeared in the New York Times). Particularly wince-inducing passages…
Cheating/test-prep in Dayton, Ohio, school
It happens every so often: we hear about administrators or teachers who copy items from secure tests and then teach students using those items. (See several item comparisons.) In this case, the alleged miscreant was an administrator of a charter school who passed the items on to a consultant who did the teaching and later […]
In B’ham, 2
Here is why you present material at a conference: I write a book and at the end of the process, there are inevitably some loose ends. I go to a conference, present the material with some of the loose ends and say, “Hey, here’s a loose end. Anyone have an idea of how to tie […]