parcc Archives – https://ezkool.com/tag/parcc/ Mon, 30 Nov 2015 00:21:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://ezkool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ezkool-logo-75png.png parcc Archives – https://ezkool.com/tag/parcc/ 32 32 12773863 The Swift Fall of Testing – What Comes Next? https://ezkool.com/2015/11/the-swift-fall-of-testing-what-comes-next/ Sun, 29 Nov 2015 19:14:33 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=61270 I’ve been in the education business for 31 years and I’ve seen many a fad come and go, from Teacher-proof curricula to shared decision-making to Differentiation to Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Mapping, Goals 2000 and various reading programs that focus on inventive spelling, phonics, whole language and learning vocabulary in context. Many of my colleagues didn’t […]

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]]> 61270 Pearson Jumps the Shark on PARCC https://ezkool.com/2015/03/pearson-jumps-the-shark-on-parcc/ https://ezkool.com/2015/03/pearson-jumps-the-shark-on-parcc/#respond Sat, 14 Mar 2015 22:11:54 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=58305 We are truly in deep PARCC mode now. Perhaps the April/May test administration should include readings from the Pentagon Papers. Pearson Education, the company that produces the PARCC tests, and is reportedly being paid over $22 million dollars in New Jersey alone, is monitoring social media to check for security breaches and other untoward activity.  […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2015/03/pearson-jumps-the-shark-on-parcc/feed/ 0 58305 PARCC Storm II: Sunshine Peeks Through https://ezkool.com/2015/02/parcc-storm-ii-sunshine-peeks-through/ https://ezkool.com/2015/02/parcc-storm-ii-sunshine-peeks-through/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2015 17:11:00 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=57729 Another week, and more snow is expected in the northeast. There’s more over the PARCC testing storm as well, but this time, there is a ray of sane sunshine. Here in New Jersey, State Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan Jr. (D-Middlesex), chairman of the Assembly’s education committee, has introduced a bill that would detail a procedure for […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2015/02/parcc-storm-ii-sunshine-peeks-through/feed/ 0 57729 Salting the PARCCing Lot https://ezkool.com/2015/01/salting-the-parccing-lot/ https://ezkool.com/2015/01/salting-the-parccing-lot/#respond Sun, 25 Jan 2015 15:48:58 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=57612 Educators, are you getting excited? No, not about the next snowstorm, which looks like a whopper, but about the PARCC tests? You’d better be, because they are on the way and the impact will be measurable and unpredictable. For those non-educators, the PARCC tests are the standardized tests that students in grades 3-11 will take […]

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