Posts Tagged ‘ Testing ’

Questioning the Wisdom of New, Common Tests

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In a Letter to the editor published online and in print, Maryann Klaus, with 40 years experience as “teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent” questions testing: Why, when all of the research points to gains made by a focus on teaching and learning, formative assessment, teacher collaboration, and strong leadership, is the government looking to...
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Home School Regulations

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Three Smart Rules for Home School Regulation, by Jay Mathews, an education columnist for The Washington Post, is an article homeschool advocates should read, as it presages an attitude which we’ll likely be seeing more of in the coming weeks and months: Homeschooling is the sleeping giant of the American education system. There are...
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Public School Programs are not Homeschooling

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HEM Editorial: While the public school programs have effectively served the needs of some families, it is unwise to allow the perception to grow that they are equivalent to homeschooling. The very construct of these public school programs runs counter to the ability of families to handcraft an education for their children.
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Another rewrite

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Testing not required for homeschooled children, KTAR 92.3, Phoenix, Arizona Nearly one percent of all Arizona students are now being home-schooled, but Candace Cochran from the county’s school’s office says there’s no way of knowing how well they’re doing because they aren’t required to be tested. The rewrite: Civilizing influences not required for institutionally-schooled...
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Gilroy, California again

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The school district of Gilroy, California has been featured in other blog posts here at NewsComm. Fear-mongering in California, 28 May 2005 Ann: A week after writer/homeschooler Cynthia Walker writes an article (above) about how to homeschool in California using a private school or the R-4 affidavit, attendance officer Frank Valadez comes out with...
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It must be the season

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In September, a newspaper’s fancies turns to thoughts of school. It must be because Congress isn’t in session, the President’s on vacation and there is still square-paperage to be filled. That’s what the subscribers are paying for. I’ve got yesterday’s small weekly paper sitting here on my desk, and only just found out that...
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