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...
Fordham Institute has published their review of the draft of the Next Generation Science Standards. Achieve wrote the the new science standards. Achieve also wrote the math and reading/language arts common core standards. Unchanging fealty to a conservative agenda...
Should all U.S. students meet a single set of K-12 education standards? In a democracy should all students be held to the same standards? This was the question that Chester E. Finn Jr., president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Jay Greene,...
