Quotable & notable
"I don't think they should get rid of [standardized tests]. They gotta know how much we're learning.''* ?3rd Grade Student in Boulder County, Colorado
"I don't think they should get rid of [standardized tests]. They gotta know how much we're learning.''* ?3rd Grade Student in Boulder County, Colorado
John Merrow has been covering education for more than thirty-five years?first as a reporter for NPR and now as a correspondent for PBS's NewsHo
Winning RTT states got a lot of points for promising to adopt CCSS and implement the standards by adopting some fairly bold reforms. Now the rubber meets the road and it's time to look at whether states are beginning to do what they promised.
In a major profile of the new chancellor of New York City's schools, the Sunday Times headline writer sums up Dennis Walcott nicely: A Schools Chief With a Knack for Conciliation.
If you make an infographic colorful enough and confusing enough, people won't pay attention to how absurd your methodology is. That seems to be the theory motivating this chart, posted by Alexander Russo and originally developed by the futurejournalismproject: