testing Archives – https://ezkool.com/tag/testing/ Sun, 08 Nov 2020 03:12:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://ezkool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ezkool-logo-75png.png testing Archives – https://ezkool.com/tag/testing/ 32 32 12773863 Education’s Dirty Little Secret https://ezkool.com/2015/11/educations-dirty-little-secret/ https://ezkool.com/2015/11/educations-dirty-little-secret/#respond Sun, 01 Nov 2015 23:33:54 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=60710 The week began with the president saying that there was too much emphasis on testing in schools.  In the middle of the week, the New York Times published a story about Success Academy Charter Schools that, among other things, noted the following: The network serves mostly black and Hispanic students and is known for exacting […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2015/11/educations-dirty-little-secret/feed/ 0 60710 The Test, the Whole Test and Nothing But the Test https://ezkool.com/2014/03/test-the-whole-test-and-nothing-but-the-test/ https://ezkool.com/2014/03/test-the-whole-test-and-nothing-but-the-test/#respond Sun, 09 Mar 2014 22:06:42 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=49012 At some point, I could see teachers having to not only swear allegiance to the United States and the state in which they live, but taking an oath to uphold the testing mania that is now in full swing across the country. This would be the only legitimate way for tests to become an accepted […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2014/03/test-the-whole-test-and-nothing-but-the-test/feed/ 0 49012 The Common Core Follies https://ezkool.com/2013/08/common-core-follies/ https://ezkool.com/2013/08/common-core-follies/#respond Tue, 20 Aug 2013 00:36:43 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=41779 You know it’s late August because the school stories are coming fast and furious. And speaking of furious, how about the reaction to the Common Core standards that are supposed to prepare our schoolchildren for work and college? In New York, where the scores declined in the debut year for the standards, the knives came […]

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