Tag: standardized testing
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Six Things K-12 Education is Keeping From You and Your Student
Twenty-five years after 9/11 and retired from the classroom, I’m still incredulous that we powered through a state testing session before telling our students about the attack. Today, I‘m thinking about what else educators kept from kids during my own twenty-five years in the classroom… and what was kept from their parents. 1.) Your “permanent…
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Building academic success in a test-heavy, AI world
For many years, I took my sophomores to our local university library during their research unit. They entered, awed at the four stories of books available to them as they begin their academic writing careers. By the time they finished their instruction session and research scavenger hunt, they became intimate with databases, the electronic card catalog, academic…
