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Yes! Reauthorization of Head Start Without the NRS Test
Now will the humanity and common sense of the Congress hold long enough to strip the high-stakes testing from NCLB? From UPI: WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) — U.S. lawmakers approved a five-year Head Start...
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NC Declares Too Much Testing
Do you think? Huh. RALEIGH – A state commission agreed today on a draft report saying “there is too much time spent on testing” and that several exams should be eliminated or no longer counted in the...
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Op Ed on Exit Exams and SC Teacher Response
By Neill/Guisbond from the Philadelphia Inquirer: Across the nation, tens of thousands of students are denied diplomas each year simply because they did not pass a standardized state test. After 12...
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Five Years Hence
Britain began their testing orgy five years before us Yanks, under the leadership, by the way, of Sir Michael Barber, who now runs the Bloomberg-Klein little shop of testing horrors. From the...
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No Let Up in the NCLB Testocracy
What makes special education students special, besides dyslexia, emotional problems, learning disabilities, autism, neurological disorders? These different manifestations of specialness are irrelevant...
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Ripples from the Carl Chew Splash
This appeared on a discussion group today from a Washington teacher responding to Carl Chew’s decision to refuse administering the WASL: You know what’s great about this…my students here in eastern...
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Making Pancake Brains
A nice opinion piece from the Seattle Times by Jesuit educator, Kent Hickey: IN a very funny scene from Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life,” a pompous hospital administrator describes how ingeniously...
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Life in Florida’s FCAT Factories
Just barely too old to have experienced Florida’s testing work camps, here Brooke describes her sister’s very different “educational” experiences in Florida schools today. From Purple States TV, a...
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Evaluating State Superintendents Based on Test Scores in Previous Jobs?
If Arne Duncan and the Business Roundtable have their way, every principal, er, CEO who interviews a prospective teacher will have all of her test scores and all of her students’ test score totals in...
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Two Seattle Special Ed Teachers Suspended for Honoring Parent Requests
Apparently in the Broad Foundation’s administrative academies, where Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson earned her credentials, just following orders is more important than acting ethically in...
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Hands Tied or Brains Locked: More Testing Insanity
What happens at testing time to a top notch U. S. born high school student who lists her first language as Lao? The story from the Des Moines Register: By STACI HUPP and GUNNAR OLSONshupp@dmreg.com A...
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The Joyless Club: The Changing Brains of Children in Kindergarten
HT to Monty Neill at ARN: Kindergarten Playtime Disappears, Raising Alarm About Children’s Learning and Health College Park, MD, March 20, 2009-Time for play in most kindergartens has dwindled to the...
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Where Will Be the 1st Class Action to Challenge the Testing Abuse of Children?
Which group of child psychologists or pediatricians will get the ACLU interested in pursuing the first class action against a district, a state, and the U. S. Government? The courts will have to deal...
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NY Parents Crazed to Land Gifted Kindergarten Seats
If you thought high-stakes tests were just for keeping poor high schoolers from graduating or to guarantee failure at an early age for the children of the poor, then think again. In New York City where...
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By Any Means Necessary: Stop Sanctioned Child Abuse in Schools
The testing hysteria has reached levels in schools that require parents and teachers to take action to protect children from further harm. Teachers, parents, and children should feel justified to take...
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