By Fred Dews | Originally Published at Brookings Institute. December 3, 2013 Rankings for the OECD's 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment were released today, showing once again that Asian countries topped the charts while American 15-year-olds scored in the middle on the international tests of math, [...]
Testimony At Education City Council Hearing From CTS Member By Jeff Nichols | Originally Published at Change The stakes. November 27, 2013 Testimony In Support Of City Council Resolution 1394-2012 Jeff Nichols, Change the Stakes November 25, 2013 Thank you Councilman Jackson for this opportunity to [...]
By Becky Schlikerman | Originally Published at The Chicago Sun times. Last Modified: Nov 27, 2013 10:09AM Chicago Public Schools has decided against using inBloom, a controversial data storehouse run by a nonprofit, and will work directly with a state-run data program, a spokeswoman said. In Illinois, [...]
Crisis Discourse, Utopian Expectations, and Accountability Failures By Paul L. Thomas | Furman University | Originally Published at Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 4(1) 2011 "It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. . . . [T]he slovenliness of our [...]
Photograph; Opponents of the Common Core State Standards kept their children out of school Nov. 18 to protest what they say is a federal overreach. Might we blame a bad Common Core State Standards rollout on a website or could it be that the website rollout went [...]
Photograph; The Franklin K. Lane Educational Campus in Brooklyn. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has been an advocate for the letter grade system, which has become one of the country’s most complex. May the era of school grades begin its descent. May all those affected in New York, [...]
By Becky Schlikerman | Originally Published at Sun Times. November 7, 2013 5:52PM The Chicago Teachers Union Thursday urged its members and parents to take a stand against standardized tests. CTU President Karen Lewis announced the “Let us Teach” campaign in Chicago as similar measures were rolled [...]
A proposal under consideration by Michigan legislators would not allow students to be promoted to fourth grade if they are not proficient in reading. (MLive File photo) The literature is, was, and likely will long be available. There is "Evidence of Negative Outcomes of Retention." Studies consistently [...]
By Alan A. Aja, | Originally Published at Huffington Post. October 30, 2013 5:06 PM Last week I asked my class of 30 plus first-year students a simple question in review for an upcoming mid-term: In what year did Mexican and U.S. authorities sign the Treaty of [...]
