International science and environmental education have been a major focus of my professional work, and so when results on international comparisons are released by TIMSS (Math and Science, PIRLS (Reading), or PISA(Math, Reading & Science), I am eager to write...
Education needs to be in the public domain, and citizens need to fight to make sure that the slow creep of privatization does not turn into an avalanche. The democratic values that are the centerpiece of our society have been under assault, especially with the rise of...
The Georgia Department of Education claims that the evaluation system they developed along Federal guidelines needs to be modified. . They think one part will not work because it will put the state at risk from lawsuits by teachers. When I first saw the headline in...
The Georgia Department of Education claims that the evaluation system they developed along Federal guidelines needs to be modified. . They think one part will not work because it will put the state at risk from lawsuits by teachers. When I first saw the headline in...
Guest Post by Anthony Cody Follow Anthony on Twitter at @AnthonyCody Defenders of our current obsession over test scores claim that new, better tests will rescue us from the educational stagnation caused by a test prep curriculum. And one of those new types of tests...
Starting this Fall, Georgia will carry out a teacher and leader assessment system that will use student progress on content tests and administrator evaluation based on a checklist of teacher classroom behaviors to evaluate teachers. A group of Georgia professors has...
