Why is it that the perception of science education in the U.S. (and other countries as well) is driven by rankings of students on international test score comparisons? The perception is that U.S. students are not competitive in the global market place because of...
Why is it that the perception of science education in the U.S. (and other countries as well) is driven by rankings of students on international test score comparisons? The perception is that U.S. students are not competitive in the global market place because of...
For several years, I have written about the National Standards Movement, and in general, have been critical of the movement, and suggested that in a liberal democracy such as our, common standards seems to the antithesis of our beliefs in the education of citizens....
As teachers, we typically use three general approaches to assess student progress. These include: diagnostic assessment---assessing prior knowledge, attitudes, and abilities, formative assessments--everyday methods that we use to help students improve their learning...
Are you surprised? You probably know that Atlanta Schools are in the middle of a test cheating scandal in which student bubble answer sheets were changed by erasing wrong answers to right answers. Did the students learn, in spite of some teachers' and administrators'...
As stated in the Governor's Investigative Report a "culture of fear" took over the Atlanta School System, and led to a conspiracy of silence which enabled the bubble sheet erasure scandle to happen. But in the last two posts I have opened the door to examine causes...
