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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

2-5-14 @ The Chalk Face

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The Moratorium Miracle: Delaying PARCC Can Actually Help Save It

Today I read two articles regarding testing and the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). After reading both, I am left with the same thought: The events detailed in both articles promote CCSS survival– and by extension– PARCC survival. The first is this press release regarding the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness of College and Careers (PARCC): […]
2-4-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Gates Scholar, Tom Kane, Wants Schools to Replicate His MET ExperimentI would have nothing but praise for the Gates Foundation Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project if it only claimed to be doing theoretical research. Neither would I have a real complaint with the work of the MET’s director, Tom Kane, if he saw it as basic research, not policy research. Kane seems to be […