And … experience comes from bad judgment. The nation’s K-12 educational enterprise – including the Commonwealth of Virginia’s – is […]
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Do educators wave their arms to make their case for educational reform grow?
Questioning the Case for Nationalized Education Reform When my daughter was 5-years old, she asked, “How do the trees flap […]
Common Core’s Data Mining Trojan Horse
Summary of American Thinker article by Carole Hornsby Haynes, August 2, 2013 Student data mining is merely the Trojan horse […]
California Committed to Move Forward with Common Core Tests As Planned
Last week, Education Week reported that nearly all of the key education officials in 40 states responding to a survey […]
An Early Look at Smarter Balanced Assessments
Sample tests aligned to the California Common Core State Standards can be viewed for grades 3-8 and 11 at http://www.smarterbalanced.org/pilot-test/. […]
ANOTHER STATE DROPS OUT OF PARCC
Is the summer of 2013 for Common Core what the summer of 2010 was for the Affordable Care Act? As […]
School Choice is Important in the Black Community
In March 2013, the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) commissioned a survey of Black voters in four Southern states […]
Posturing vs. Performing – Blame the Test
Lawrence Hardy’s article “An Epidemic of Cheating,” which appeared in the National School Boards Association’s (NSBA’s) magazine, takes a look […]
Year 3 of Implementing the Common Core State Standards: State Education Agencies’ Views on the Federal Role
This report, based on a winter/spring 2013 survey of 40 Common Core State Standards-adopting states, examines state education agency (SEA) […]
Virginia LDS Insights Conference 2013
The Virginia Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) sponsored the Virginia Longitudinal Data Systems (VLDS) Insight conference, at George Mason University, […]