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College for all! Please!
I stewed most of the week about how to respond to Deborah Meier's recent Bridging Differences post on ?college for all.??
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Curriculum & Instruction
Recommended reading: A great essay & a history test
There are two stories in today's New York Times that merit some consideration.
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Curriculum & Instruction
The importance of history
The following, by Peter Wehner, originally appeared on the Commentary Magazine blog.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Dear Diane:
This is what I don't understand about Diane Ravitch.? After several years (more or less) of fairly relentless criticisms of school reformers, she is back to her old self today, telling the New York Times that the new NAEP history? test results are ?alarming.?? ?Well, of course, they are.
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Assessment blues: Bad news on test-based incentives
The new report from the National Research Council (with its come-hither title, Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education) is sure to add fuel to the anti-accountability fires. It concludes, pretty shockingly, that all these tests haven't made kids any smarter.?
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Free speech versus dumb speech
Though I am not inclined to give teachers too much autonomy until they start showing signs of it working to improve our schools, Jonathan Zimmerman raises some interesting issues in his When Teachers Talk out of School essay in this morning's Times.
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Choices, choices
Louis Menand offers opposing views of college in the latest New Yorker. On the one hand, he writes, college is basically ?a four-year intelligence test. Students have to demonstrate intellectual ability over time and across a range of subjects.