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The Principal's Office
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A view of education from the office of a high school principal in Connecticut, USA. Education has never been so important!
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If you don’t like standardized testing results, just “invalidate” them!
According to Kathleen Kennedy Manzo, writer for EdWeek (6/4/08), the state of Georgia is just going to ignore test results for the entire state. They’ve realized that testing should serve schools – and not the other way around!According to Manzo:...
I am not even going to comment on this incident of plagiarism in fear that someone else may have previously blogged the thoughts.
TAKEN FROM: “Plagiarism allegations jolt school” Chicago Tribune WRITTEN BY: James Kimberly, Tribune reporter, May 30, 2008 HIS ORIGINAL IDEAS: Strict policies that put it at the forefront of efforts to weed out plagiarism led a prominent high sc...
High Stakes Testing: If it is broke, don’t fix it. Just join in!
Pennsylvania lawmakers are skeptical.According to Martha Raffaele of the Associated Press: Members of a Senate panel on Wednesday joined a chorus of skeptics who question whether the state should spend millions of dollars on a proposed state graduati...
If you want creativity in schools, then demand it!
Meris Stansbury, Assistant Editor of eSchool News in an article “Creativity is important but neglected,” may be pointing out the obvious: businesses want creative individuals and schools are trying to promote creative individuals. But the pressur...
The best predictor of college success…?
According to an article in USA Today by Janet Kornblum and Gregg Toppo, the new section of the SAT exam, the “controversial” writing portion, is the best indicator of success in college.Forget high school grades, high school GPA, or the difficult...
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hollywoodchainsaw Said:
Great blog! Breaks through institutional "education speak" and breaks it down so the average guy can understand. We need more blogs like this!
