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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

High-Stakes Testing and No Child Left Behind: An Animated Debate

Does high stakes testing harm low income children?

Posted by Carla Ranger at 7:35 AM

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Real Life- Schools in Pictures - I just discovered Through Your Lens: School Facilities across America. Adequate facilities are such a huge part of making welcoming, safe, and comfortable ...
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Urban School Foundation Blog | We provide Chicagoland's disadvantaged students with tools to build a brighter future.

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Washington Post - Education

Students at a Virginia school set out to fight segregation. Would they succeed? - Boundaries were being redrawn at Stonewall Jackson High. Officials said they were “mindful of the many effects.”
5 years ago
Whitney Tilson's School Reform Blog

Dismal Voucher Results Surprise Researchers as DeVos Era Begins; DeVos and Tax Credit Vouchers: Arizona Shows What Can Go Wrong - With Betsy DeVos and the Trump administration pushing school choice, I’d like to take a look at the debate. First, here are two NYT articles that are qu...
7 years ago
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Yong Zhao

Education Has Failed and What Can We Do Next? - Education has failed to prepare children for the world today. Despite the increased investment, impactful reforms, hardworking teachers and school leaders,...
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A Teacher's Creed

"In the classroom on the first day of a new school year, I am eager to meet my students. I have rehearsed my greeting and first day’s remarks, but no matter how many years I’ve prepared for this procedure, it’s always new. My heart pumps a bit harder, faster; I feel adrenaline like an athlete, or like an actor, or maybe like a novice public speaker. It’s a marvelous feeling, this first day, because I know that something special is going to happen, and I know it because I’ve experienced it before and I know that I will experience it every time I meet a new class throughout my venerable career. And then they’re seated before me and I smile at this special feeling. This is an assembly of students, yes. But there’s so much more, because each of these young persons is more than just a student entrusted to me. Each of these students has a story to tell, a lifetime, however brief, of experiences, a history in volumes whose richness and depth I can barely begin to fathom. And so as I absorb the first glimpse of these young charges, I must appreciate the extent of my responsibility, of the privilege I’ve accepted in presenting these young souls my special knowledge. In offering them my talent and passion, I am adding an enormous array of new bright stars to the vast firmament of their minds, stars that will never have time to fade in their lifetimes. I will be part of their story. And I know that each of them will always be part of mine. And that’s a good feeling, a feeling that is perpetually renewed, revisited, and rewritten in A Teacher’s Creed."

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