FCAT failures - testing is not teaching

FCAT failures: testing is not teaching
MiamiHerald.com
BY DAN GELBER Notwithstanding the recent Herald editorial, the latest debacle over FCAT writing scores was much more than an administrative miscue in grading by the state Department of Education. The DOE announcement that over 70 percent of Florida ...

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Teachers must make the grade in charter schools
Washington Post
Teachers whose students improve should get raises; teachers whose students aren't learningshould find new careers. Test scores shouldn't be the only factor, but they should be a substantial one. Contrary to what many critics argue, the growth model of ...

The Global Search for Education: In Search of Professionals - Singapore
Huffington Post
What decisions and actions did your government take with respect to building teaching quality and the teaching profession, and when? In Singapore, teachers are hired by the Ministry ofEducation and deployed to schools after their teacher preparation ...

NC teacher captured on video suggesting student could be arrested for Obama ...
Fox News
A North Carolina high school teacher was captured on video shouting at a student who questioned President Obama and suggesting he could be arrested for criticizing a sitting president. The Salisbury Post, which first reported on the YouTube video, ...

Test scores plummet — so Florida drops passing grade
Washington Post (blog)
By Valerie Strauss Here's the latest disaster in Florida's standardized test-based school accountability system, which has been touted as a model for education reform around the country since it was developed by former Gov. Jeb Bush.

Florida test scores bring more questions than answers
CNN (blog)
by Donna Krache, CNN (CNN) - The Florida Department of Education has released the results of its most recent statewide standardized tests, the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test in reading and writing. Results for the FCAT reading tests for grades ...

A marriage of teaching and entrepreneurship
Washington Post
“She brought that to the table and I just started learning from watching her go through that process.” Now, they're both helping thousands of teachers learn more about their students through Interactive Achievement, which provides online testing ...

Retiring teachers reflect on their careers
Iowa City Press Citizen
Why did you do into teaching? “I actually had a high school band teacher who wasn't very interested in teaching. I kept thinking that I felt like the students deserved more.” • How hasteaching changed since you started? “It seems like our classes are ...

Teacher-Developed Apps Fill Lesson Gaps
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
There are tens of thousands of educational apps aimed at teaching high school students everything from physics to Japanese. But not all of those apps are created equal, warns Teacherswithapps.com, a site created by two teachers to evaluate educational ...

Striking Reynolds School District teachers take up pickets as talks continue
OregonLive.com
Dozens of teachers arrived shortly before 7 am outside Reynolds High School to walk the picket line. Many carried signs that said "On strike" and "I'd rather beteaching." Superintendent Joyce Henstrand said last night the district has dropped demands ...

OregonLive.com

Former teachers union head Randi Weingarten defends current UFT president Mike ...
New York Daily News
Former teachers union president Randi Weingarten went to bat for her successor Sunday after a lawsuit charged that when he was a teacher, he had sex on school premises with a guidance counselor. The suit claims that the United Federation ofTeachers ...

New York Daily News

Colchester education budget to get trim after loss
Norwich Bulletin
By RYAN BLESSING A list of $350000 in definite cuts and another $320000 in potential reductions from the Colchester Board of Education budget proposal will be in front of the board when it meets Tuesday. School administrators introduced the cuts last ...

Online Education in Australia Industry Market Research Report now updated by ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Melbourne, Australia (PRWEB) May 21, 2012 The Online Education industry in Australia is growing at a rapid pace. Technological advancements and faster internet speeds have allowed the online model to become a more viable method of learning, ...

Pleasant Education Academy prepares for third year
Marion Star
Hannah Hill and some of her classmates work online Thursday at the Pleasant Education Academy in the Pleasant School District's middle school. The academy, a blended school that combines online and classroom learning, is seeking more students.

Brain Training Ranks High in Treating Learning Problems
Houston Chronicle
Every year, more than 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the US, many because oflearning problems. But one company has found a way to keep children and teens from increasing this statistic by treating learning problems with brain training ...

Connections Education to Open New "Blended" High Schools for the 2012- 2013 ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Nexus Academy Schools are a Tuition-Free, Public High School Option; A Rigorous College-Preparatory Curriculum Combining the Best of Online Learning with an Exciting Campus Environment. Connections Education (http://www.ConnectionsEducation.com) ...

Wolftrap Elementary alum donates $800K in honor of beloved teacher Candace Leyton
Washington Post (blog)
Shumway originally offered $500000 for the lab, which is meant to give teachers and students technology and space for creative and experiential learning. When construction bids came in high, he stuck with the project, and has now donated about $800000.

Ball State gets out of prison education business
Muncie Star Press
MUNCIE -- The Indiana Department of Correction has no firm plans yet to address budget cuts to correctional education. The state Legislature last year cut off Frank O'Bannon grants to offenders attending college in state prisons, including about 1000 ...

Higher Education Students Lack Proper Career Guidance
AllAfrica.com
By Masembe Tambwe, 20 May 2012 EDUCATIONAL experts have said lack of career guidance among Form Six students joining higher learning institutions is a snag often leading them to opt for professions not of their choice. An Assistant Lecturer at the ...

New Nonprofit Challenges Calif. Teacher Rules
The Nonprofit Quarterly
In the latest move to disrupt the “status quo” in public education in California, Students Matter, a newly formed nonprofit, filed a lawsuit against the State of California and other defendants seeking to overturn five laws that “govern teacher tenure ...

Be Our Guest: Writer & teacher James McSherry
New York Daily News
I've spent half of my life there, as both student and teacher. While a freshman, my father, a Korean War veteran, and an alcoholic, was murdered on a side street appropriately named Fink Ave. I was 14. We subsequently went on welfare.

New York Daily News

Billionaire donors drive anti-teacher, pro-testing education reform ...
By rss@dailykos.com (Laura Clawson)
The faces that dominate the education reform debate today—where "education reform" means increased reliance on standardized tests, the results of which are then used to determine the fates of teachers whose job security has been weakened —are people like former Washington, D.C. ... We see, despite demonstrated poor results for online learning, philanthropist Bill Gates giving money to online learning advocacy while Microsoft looks into entering the online learning business.
Daily Kos

North Carolina Teacher Blasts Student For Criticizing Obama…Says ...
By Andrea Ryan
There was no learning going on in that classroom. ... One reason we pulled our boys out of public school was because the black teachers were not only lousy educators, a couple of them couldn't speak decent English. They had .... as an example of what the left has done to “higher education,” they were teaching remedial reading in the teacher's college I attended in the 1960′s. if you need to take remedial reading you should have to go back to grammer school not go on to college.
The Gateway Pundit

North Carolina High School Teacher Tells Students That They May ...
By Mike Riggs
Here is some audio of a high school teacher in North Carolina telling her students that it is illegal to criticize President Obama: Some transcription, via the Salisbury Post: One student asks, “Didn't Obama bully someone though?” The teacher ...
Hit & Run

Kevin DuJan - HillBuzz.org/Your education tax dollars at work
By Esther4HB
Kevin DuJan - HillBuzz.org/YouTube recording of public school teacher yelling at student for dissing Obama; miseducation. ... The teacher yells — literally yells — that Obama is 'due the respect that every other president is due … Listen,' she ...
HillBuzz.org

Harford County Board of Education May 21: Is Money Available for ...
By Cindy Mumby
A STEM Teacher Academy was created in 2010 providing college level training in the core sciences for thirty two teachers, grades 3 through 8. Partners include Frostburg State University, Morgan State University, Towson University and ...
The Dagger | Harford County News...

The PJ Tatler » NC Teacher Tells Students They Can Go to Jail for ...
By Bryan Preston
A YouTube video uploaded on Monday afternoon apparently shows a schoolteacher from the Rowan-Salisbury school district in North Carolina informing a student that failing to be respectful of President Obama is a criminal offense. Breitbart ...
The PJ Tatler

Rationally Speaking: Online education and the latest hype from ...
By Massimo Pigliucci
This is obvious from a series of elementary facts: a large portion of them thinks that creationism should be taught side by side with evolution; the public education system — one of the fundamental backbones of any democracy — has been under relentless attack and has been in the process of ... Teaching — at its best — is an interactive experience between a necessarily small number of students and someone who has both knowledge to impart and an effective way of imparting it.
Rationally Speaking

Say Anything » Teacher Tells Student He Could Be Arrested For ...
By Rob Port
During a discussion of the presidential race, and the scandal over Mitt Romney supposedly bullying while he was in school, a student asked his teacher if President Obama hadn't admitted to bullying too. The teacher's response? She goes ...
Say Anything

Teacher Warns Student About Speaking Badly About Obama | North ...
This incident should serve as an education for all teachers to stop and reflect on .... out at ...
www.theblaze.com/.../n-c-teacher-tells-student-he-could-be-arr...

Teacher Yells At Student: Criminal Offense to Criticize Obama :
An audio recording of an exchange between a teacher and a student at North ... is becoming a ...
theintelhub.com/.../teacher-yells-at-student-criminal-offense-to...

Weekly news roundup: Teacher charged with theft ...
Lakota East teacher charged with prom fund theft- A Lakota East High School ... second time this spring, the Lakota Board of Education voted unanimously to promote ... of classmates,teachers and Lakota administrators in the high school's theatre. .... Savannah Center · TheLearning Kitchen · The Square @ Union Centre ...
westchesterbuzz.com/.../weekly-news-roundup-teacher-charge...

Video Shows North Carolina Teacher Screaming At Student That He ...
The teacher went ballistic after a student responded to the account of Mitt Romney ... I feel ...
jonathanturley.org/.../video-shows-north-carolina-teacher-scre...

Program for History, Social Studies Teachers Receive $20000 Grant
The Kentucky Historical Society and the state Education Department are conducting a yearlong program for 24 history and social studies teachers. ... with a $20000 grant from the Midwest Regional Center for Teaching with Primary Sources.
www.wbko.com/.../Program_for_History_Social_Studies_Tea...

Angry teacher orders student not to speak ill of Obama
This is a teacher? She can't even speak correct English.I sure hope there aren't many teacherslike her. What chance do our kids have, being taught by ...
now.msn.com/now/0520-student-debates-teacher.aspx

Jeremy Adams '98 Wins Teaching Award :: News :: Washington and ...
Washington and Lee University provides a liberal arts education that develops ... Graduates will be prepared for life-long learning, personal achievement, responsible ... And he's just been named Kern County Teacher of the Year. ... with my students and more faith in my fellowteachers to be the one teacher I wanted to be." ...
news.blogs.wlu.edu/.../jeremy-adams-98-wins-teaching-award/

Teacher Screams at Student it's a Crime to Criticize President ...
The teacher screamed the following in disapproval: “Stop, no, because there is no ...Remember the elementary teacher teaching her class to sing “um…um…
visiontoamerica.org/.../teacher-tells-student-its-a-crime-to-criti...

Teacher Won't Allow Opinions About Obama (Other Than Hers ...
If a teacher shoves an opinion down the throats of her students, the students ... said this can ...
www.ijreview.com/.../5953-teacher-wont-allow-opinions-abou...


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