The city is exempting 27 high schools from a push to enroll more special ed students. (Insideschools)
State officials have tossed another test question, this time on the fifth-grade math test. (SchoolBook)
The journalists who flagged suspicious test scores say a federal program is flawed. (Education Reporter)
A report from the NewSchools Venture Fund Summit of education reform folks. (Marketplace K-12)
NYC-based ed tech entrepreneurs convened this week to talk about the future. (Digital: Hechinger)
An exploration of the conceptual border separating teachers and their unions. (Shanker Blog)
Dan Willingham: Reading comprehension strategies takes joy and turns it into work. (Willingham)
A new study finds pre-K has an outsized benefit for non-English-speakers. (Learning the Language)
A reform group has picked a charter teacher and Hunter High student as blogging fellows. (NYCAN)
Michael M. (parent still)
The 5th grade math problem “solution” is STILL flawed.
NOWHERE in the problem definition does it say the two angles on the left have to remain 90 degrees. The explanation does address this as an asterisk, but that’s NOT what the kids saw, even if they did know how to find an imperfect square root, and even if their iPhone did have an HP-12C emulator. (Doesn’t yours?)
Therefore, merely reverting to Pythagoras is NOT enough. He would have swilled hemlock. Oh wait…
http://twitter.com/nycdoenuts nycdoenuts
I also thought Larry Ferlazzo’s piece about data (exactly what should be measured) was a really awesome read.
Boy, this stuff is getting to be a howl. A “reform” group just happens to pick a charter school, TFA, E4E teacher. Never miss a chance to plug E4E. And a teacher at Achievement First. Check out ex Achievement First parents from the GEM film on child abuse. Here are links - vimeo.com/30238788, vimeo.com/30266020, vimeo.com/30227766
—- a 2012 School Reform Blogging Fellow
for NYCAN. She teaches sixth- and seventh-grade science at Achievement
First Bushwick Middle School. Outside of the classroom, Tamara advocates
with Educators 4 Excellence to include teachers in school policy
decisions. She previously served as a Teach for America corps member in
the South Bronx.
Clay
GS, can you start referring to them accurately as “corporate reform groups”?
http://www.ednewsdaily.com/ Robyn
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