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...
An email from a high school student resulted in my taking a final examination about science education. A student from a high school in Long Island wrote and asked if I would be willing to be interviewed for a book the student was writing about education. Here are the...
When you wake up next Tuesday, July 19th you'll only have to wait until 1 P.M. Eastern Time for the announcement from the National Academy Sciences the publication of A New Framework for K-12 Science Education. You'll be able to access the framework here after the...
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...
The Grassroots Education Movement, a group of citizens in New York City, are organizing a campaign against the high stakes use of standardized testing in their schools. Their first meeting will be on July 18th at the CUNY Graduate Center. According the organizers of...
