The following is a “readers response” I sent to the Baltimore Sun in response to a commentary posted in the newspaper. Sadly I have had no reply. I am not holding my breath. Silence and ignorance are tools of the oppressive reform movement. Informed community members are a danger to their efforts. Lost in Translation: A response […]
Rank, RANK amateurism from #PARCC tools and #commoncore
March 7, 2013 By 2 Comments
I’ve commented on this previously. And one more here. I had forwarded to me an email message about PARCC releasing some kind of planning tools to get ready for the big assessments. I decided to examine the prototypes again to see if there was anything different. They’re the SAME things they released in November when I […]
Details on #sequestration and #edreform… blah, blah, blah
March 6, 2013 By 2 Comments
Both poles of the political spectrum have been trying to game the impacts of the sequester. I wanted to take a closer look at its effects in education, particularly in the state where I reside, Maryland. Fortunately for us plebes, documents are available detailing the impact of the sequester in each state. Here’s Maryland’s, for […]
Oh, and one other thing about #PARCC samples, and it’s kind of funny
November 28, 2012 By 7 Comments
I’m looking at a 10th grade reading prototype here. You have links to the articles or sample readings. So, you click the links and they take you to a couple of random websites. One is some guy’s blog on poetry. The other for Ovid links randomly to the Sogang University in Korea website that, for […]
Courtesy @skrashen, details on testing via the “new” #PARCC
May 23, 2012 By 2 Comments
The basic maxim from this document: more is more. That’s it. More testing. Review the document for yourself, but a couple of stand outs. Reviewers expressed concerns that the frameworks diminished the place of literature in the English classroom. Indeed, one reader stated the case strongly: “The frameworks … ask schools to limit the teaching […]
Let’s do a little #parcc math, shall we?
I’ve been curious about the recent release of time estimates for the PARCC tests, via Education Week. I was thinking about the typical elementary school, ones that I’ve been in, to see how this is going to work in practice, at least for the first couple of years as we go into total flux mode. Nevermind […]