At NewTalk they’re having an education discussion featuring Public Agenda’s Jean Johnson, UFT’s Leo Casey, Common Good’s Janet Corcoran, Fordham’s Checker Finn, KIPP’s Ryan Hill, Diane Ravitch, and Deb White a Wyoming teacher and founder of the Cody Teen Leadership Coalition.
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 A Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom Edited by Frederick M. Hess, Andrew J. Rotherham, and Kate Walsh |
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 Rethinking Special Education For A New Century Edited by Chester E. Finn, Jr., Andrew J. Rotherham & Charles R. Hokanson, Jr. |
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January 24th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Lots about “so much testing.” I don’t get it. Maybe Massachusetts is an outlier. Our 10th graders have less than 10 hours per year of MCAS, out of 1,000+ hours of school. Less than 1%.
Half the grades (K, 1, 2, 9, 11, 12) in MA don’t even take MCAS.
Ravitch and Finn seem to agree that national standards and assessments (Ravitch=feds; Finn=opt-in created by Achieve et al) are the way to go.