On Sunday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a Cox newspaper published the results of its investigation into "cheating" in American schools. The article was entitled Suspicious Scores Across the Nation, and you can read it by following the link. The article was...
Guest Post by Donna McKenna This was first published on March 8 on Donna McKenna's blog, No Sleep 'til Summer. She is an elementary ESL teacher passionate about language learners and language learning. Published with permission. Note: This post is a continuation of...
Guest Post by Anthony Cody This post was originally published on Anthony Cody's blog at Living in Dialog, on March 10. Anthony Cody spent 24 years working in Oakland schools, 18 of them as a science teacher at a high needs middle school. He is National Board...
The Georgia Senate approved Senate Bill 420 which is an amendment to part of the Official Code Georgia. The bill relates to the accountability assessment for K-12 education. The passage of the bill further degrades education and Georgia, and applies punitive...
In the last post we used science education research to show how accountability standards in science education today pose barriers to meaningful learning in science. Today, we extend this theme, and show that the theory of learning underlying the accountability...
Over the next few weeks I am going to focus on standards- and test-based educational reform with an eye toward opening a conversation about how standards and high-stakes tests might actually impede science teaching and learning. We begin by examining the science...
