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Monthly Archives: November 2008

Time for a Little Comprehension

Monday, November 24, 2008

Among the current slate of policy solutions for educational malaise – the accountability, the school choice, and the union bashing – absent from the list is textbook trashing. Why ignore them? We wrote standards and and grade level expectations; we contracted with the test-making companies to get tests “aligned” and pointing back at teachers, but [...]

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Assessments for Learning

Thursday, November 13, 2008

The Gates Foundation is developing national education standards and tests because the state-by-state standards have caused a “‘testing crisis in this country,’ in which tests are losing credibility among teachers, who see them as so low-quality that they are useless.” No kidding. The truth is, that’s exactly right, but not for the right reason. They [...]

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Here Comes the Sun

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Celebrate it.

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Jason the Reader

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Jason Hill (via BBC News): “He’s not gonna increase my taxes. If you read – it’s in plain black and white. It’s on the internet. You can read his plans. It’s there for you to read. He will not raise taxes on anybody that’s making less than $250,000.” h/t Edge of the American West

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Rage and Hope

Saturday, November 1, 2008

With less than 72 hours left before the polls close, the election is what I’m mostly thinking about now. Michael Moore has been busy thinking about it, too. He was interviewed on Democracy Now yesterday, talking with Amy Goodman about the election. Like a lot of progressives, he’s nervous looking at optimistic poll results, and [...]

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