The most urgent need Above almost all other needs, schools need appropriate tools to assess English language learners. Today, there are few tools to help teachers distinguish what students know about a subject from their ability to understand and communicate in English. Think there are Spanish-language versions of your local assessment, do you?
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Sherman Dorn responded to How Should Students Be Assessed? on April 13, 2010 04:30 PM
Continuous, comprehensive, collaborative The move toward next-generation student assessment is the natural next step in the promising move toward common state standards. In order to be effective and useful, such assessments must be ongoing, collaborative, and drawn from a range of sources – and here I’m referring not just the tests themselves but their very development
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Deborah McGriff responded to How Should Students Be Assessed? on April 13, 2010 02:25 PM
Unlikely to produce good assessments The guidelines (RfP) for state consortia to follow in applying for federal funds to design new assessment systems are not going to solve the problems created by NCLB, nor lead toward truly high-quality, educationally sound assessment systems. That said, what progress is to be made, if any, is likely to depend a great deal on which consortia are picked to receive the funds.
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Monty Neill responded to How Should Students Be Assessed? on April 12, 2010 04:47 PM
Why a Tradeoff? I don’t think we can afford a tradeoff. We need consistent evaluation of students that provides for a deep analysis of their knowledge and skills
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Sandy Kress responded to How Should Students Be Assessed? on April 12, 2010 03:03 PM
WiZiQ has made tests more transparent by making the statistics available to view. It means, a teacher can see 1) who is attempting the tests, 2) score of the test, and 3) count of correct and incorrect answers
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What it will take to pass the DREAM Act Our moderator Eliza Krigman raises an important question: if there appears to be broad support for the DREAM Act, why hasn’t it passed yet? Despite the sense that Latinos’ political power is growing, immigration issues remain unresolved.
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Deborah McGriff responded to Should Undocumented Students Get Federal Support? on April 12, 2010 06:56 PM
WHY THE DREAM ACT IS STILL A DREAM Let me add my amen’s to the chorus of support to the Dream Act. I’ve spent too many unhappy days with bright and ambitious high school youngsters who, because they couldn’t get federal support, found themselves at a dead end
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David L. Kirp responded to Should Undocumented Students Get Federal Support? on April 8, 2010 08:24 PM
DREAM Act Provides a Pathway America has welcomed generation after generation of immigrant students into its public schools, and these generations of students have gone on to help build America into a great nation. In honor and recognition of that proud immigrant heritage, the National Education Association has long supported policies and programs that welcome and lift up immigrant students.
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Dennis Van Roekel responded to Should Undocumented Students Get Federal Support? on April 7, 2010 09:03 AM
DREAM Act is common sense Nothing makes more common sense than passing the DREAM Act. The bill has been languishing before Congress for nearly a decade, and it’s tragic to think about the number of young lives and dreams that have been put on hold.
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Cynthia G. (Cindy) Brown responded to Should Undocumented Students Get Federal Support? on April 6, 2010 09:41 PM
It’s Everybody’s Dream I worked for three years with high school students in an urban district serving many children of Mexican immigrants. Getting to know these kids made it hard for me not to support the DREAM Act.
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Steve Peha responded to Should Undocumented Students Get Federal Support? on April 5, 2010 05:50 PM
Modern psychologists deal with human behavior which is purposeful. Human behavior, unlike lower animals varies according to situations and can not be explained by a single mental aspect. So, modern psychologists have formed some inter-related concepts of human behavior.
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i) What do you mean by motivation? Why is it important in the teaching-learning process?
In an unanimous vote by the Student Senate on Tuesday, the Student Government Association officially proposed that St. Olaf have its own way of rating professors and courses called the Course and Teaching Evaluation (CATE)
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New prof rating system – Olivia Koester, Manitou Messenger
Merrill Area Public Schools next year will expand its course options beyond traditional classrooms. The district will offer classes from three online programs for students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12. Merrill Superintendent Lisa Snyder has invited all interested families to a meeting on the courses Monday at Merrill High School.
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Online Learning: Merrill schools to go virtual – Charles Menchaca, Wausau Daily Herald
Cathy Mincberg recently spoke to school innovators from around the country as part of a Bill and Melinda Gates conference on “Creating a Literacy Spine by Design”. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is funding partner school districts and charter management organizations around the country to rapidly build and scale innovations that ensure that students leave high school truly ready for college or careers. To expand thinking about innovation, a panel entitled “What Will Disrupt Literacy Learning / Instruction as We Know It?” provoked attendees by illustrating how innovative ideas can disrupt education in a way that makes quantum, rather than incremental, improvements possible.
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Cathy Mincberg Speaks to Gates Foundation Panel About Online Learning as a Disruptive Innovation
One chief advantage of having a master’s degree is the potential it brings to you for increased earnings. If you want to move up the career ladder at your current job, there often is no better way than getting your advanced degree.
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“Camera shy” is not the first phrase that comes to my mind for Siva Vaidhyanathan.
If they choose to stay in the state, thousands of unemployed Michigan factory workers will need to re-brand their careers, experts say. But how? Online, non-credit courses with the LEARN program aim to help baby boomers laid off from manufacturing industry jobs answer that question, said University of Michigan professor Lynn Wooten, who helped to develop the program’s curriculum
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New Web site offers career courses via online learning for Michigan’s out-of-work baby boomers – AnnArbor.com
District students looking for a few extra credits during the traditionally academic downtime of summer will soon be able to move a step closer to graduation without leaving their homes. Students can sign up now for several online summer school class offerings, including health, U.S. government, geometry and algebra
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High school summer school learning goes online – Tim Troglen, Hudson Hub Times
During the past week, it has appeared that public higher education might become the vehicle for carrying the weight of this budgetary shortfall, although there is now some indication that compromise might be in the air. Failure to continue down that compromise path is a dangerous road to take. Higher education is the engine that feeds economic growth.
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Weighing higher education in the budget balancing act – DOROTHY LELAND, Macon Telegraph
Public higher education is at risk: if we continue down this path of diminished state funding, the University of Illinois will become a de facto private school. The poor in Chicago will lose out on affordable and accessible higher education
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What does the crisis mean? – Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Flame