Last week there were a couple of stories in the news about how standardized testing can dovetail with curriculum development. This week, the College Board announced that David Coleman will be its new president and CEO. Coleman co-founded the non-profit that helped develop the Common Core standards, and the move demonstrates the College Board’s focus … Continue reading »
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Around the Web: The Big Picture
The theme for this year’s StoryCorps’s “National Day of Listening” was thanking teachers—the heartwarming stories are here. NPR devoted the Thanksgiving episode of “Talk of the Nation” to the topic—listeners called in to thank their former teachers, and teachers called in to reflect on what it meant to be thanked. It was striking to hear not … Continue reading »
Around the Web: Assessing Instructors, Students, and Schools
In The New York Review of Books, Diane Ravitch reviews two books on opposite sides of the school reform debate, and in the process passionately advocates for more nuanced attention to all of the factors that affect student performance. So what are some of the factors affecting student (and faculty) performance? There’s grade inflation: Inside Higher … Continue reading »
