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Students protest Tucson Unified's removal of the successful & well-attended Mexi…

January 23, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Students protest Tucson Unified’s removal of the successful & well-attended Mexican American Studies program from the curriculum.Students Step Up Tucson Walkouts: Protest School District Folly and Mexican American Studies Banishmblogs.alternet.orgAs th…

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Twitter as a FREE, OPEN resource for discussions of the craft of teaching. Inter…

January 23, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Twitter as a FREE, OPEN resource for discussions of the craft of teaching. Interesting & worth exploring!Teachers take to Twitter to improve craft and commiseratewww.washingtonpost.comTeachers say the camaraderie and free, instantaneous help they find …

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Tea Party extremists want slavery removed from TN schoolbooks. Why not just burn…

January 23, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Tea Party extremists want slavery removed from TN schoolbooks. Why not just burn the books? (Ahem!)Tennessee Tea Party ‘Demands’ That References To Slavery Be Removed From History Textbooksthinkprogress.orgIn 2010, the conservatives who controlled …

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The Chetty-Friedman-Rockoff longitudinal study on "value-added" measure uses stu…

January 23, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

The Chetty-Friedman-Rockoff longitudinal study on “value-added” measure uses student test scores from BEFORE 2002’s NCLB’s test-determined”Adequate Yearly Progress.” FAIL.Dear Michelle Rhee: About that teacher evaluation studywww.washingtonpost.comRhee…

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Comprehensive critique of NCLB by @DianRavitch: one big point is to "use tests f…

January 23, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Comprehensive critique of NCLB by @DianRavitch: one big point is to “use tests for diagnostic purposes only.” Read the whole thing.Ravitch: ‘No Child Left Behind has been a disaster’ | Davis Enterprisewww.davisenterprise.comRavitch: ‘No Child Left …

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NCLB waivers still require top-down Common Core Standards, school performance tr…

January 23, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

NCLB waivers still require top-down Common Core Standards, school performance tracking using standardized test scores as a key metric, & teacher/principal evals based on student test scores, according to a GA professor of education.NCLB waivers: The de…

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