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Part 4: High Stakes Testing: The Consequences
High Stakes Testing: The Consequences There is the narrowing of focus to math and reading and less focus on history, social studies, the arts, foreign
A webinar with Deborah Meier and Nancy Carlsson-Paige : Early Childhood Educators Say “No!” to Standards and Tests
Save Our Schools is hosting a webinar on Friday, June 1st at 6:00 PM PST with Deborah Meier and Nancy Carlsson-Paige on young children and
Pencils Down: Introduction: Why We Need to Rethink High-Stakes Assessment and Accountability
Rethinking Schools has just come out with its latest publication Pencils Down edited by Wayne Au and Melissa Bollow Tempel. To follow is the introduction
Cheating on Roast Beef Sandwiches, Cheating on Standardized Tests: Lessons from D.C. under Michelle Rhee
When I was about 19, I worked as a cook at a fast-food restaurant chain. Their roast beef sandwiches were advertised as having four ounces
