Category: Testing
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A Crusade to End Grading in High Schools
An educator is leading a national movement to change the way schools measure student progress. Why? And can it catch on? A profile in The Washington Post Magazine.
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Don’t Abandon Standardized Testing. Use the Right Tests for the Right Roles.
There’s a major role of student testing in the wake of the pandemic. It’s just not the type of testing that many are focused on.
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How Obama Got Schooled
Under pressure from right and left, the president signed away hard-won federal power over K-12 education and gutted his own reforms, even as they were working.
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Rethinking the Carnegie Unit
By stressing the amount of time students spend in the classroom rather than their mastery of subjects, the Carnegie Unit masks the quality of teaching and learning in the nation’s schools and colleges. But alternatives aren’t simple.
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An Epidemic of Test Cheating–Two Decades Ago
Cheating on standardized tests is nothing new.
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The Unfinished Agenda of the No Child Left Behind Act
A decade after the signing of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, we’re still a long way from providing all students with a rigorous education.
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Evaluating Teachers
A panel discussion on the use of student test scores in evaluating teachers
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The Quarterly Report: Big Questions for America’s Schools
An on-camera discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of today’s school reform movement
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National Problems Require National Solutions
The national problems in public education require national solutions.
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Teaching Wars: What Students Should Learn
Two school reform titans of an earlier era inform today’s debate over what students should learn and how they should be taught.