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AFT: Over-reliance on testing threatens education
DETROIT (AP) — The nation's second-largest teachers union says the dependence on high-stakes testing is undermining America's education system and impeding classroom teaching. The American Federation of Teachers approved the resolution...
Tags: Teachers Unions, Joe Biden, Education
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Baltimore Teachers Union supports call to halt Common Core consequences
The Baltimore Teacher's Union has called for the district hold off on attaching penalties to schools' performance on the the new Common Core assessments, citing insufficient professional development and resources to implement the new high-stakes...Tags: School Examinations, Credit and Debt, Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Adult Education
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Building toward Common Core
In his five months as Florida education commissioner, no moss has grown under Tony Bennett. He has barnstormed the Sunshine State glad-handing teachers skeptical over merit pay and selling Common Core to increasingly cynical critics who view the...
Tags: Executive Branch, Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Rick Scott, Charter Schools, Teachers
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Malloy Praises New Britain Mayor For Initiative To Improve Schools
The Hartford CourantAfter viewing cramped conditions at the Gaffney School on Monday, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy reaffirmed his pledge to better fund urban school districts — so long as they use the money well. Malloy said the state is prepared to help schools such as...Tags: Executive Branch, Local Government, New Britain, Government, Regional Authority
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Seattle schools back down from standardized test after protests
ReutersSEATTLE (Reuters) - The Seattle public school system, facing a rebellion that stoked the national protest movement over standardized testing in U.S. public schools, is backing away from the contentious multiple-choice exam for its upcoming school year....Tags: Examinations, School Examinations, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Academic Progress
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Pennsylvania getting swept into national 'Common Core' education debate
HARRISBURG — In the last three years, the Bethlehem Area School District and other districts have spent lots of money rewriting curriculum and lessons to prepare students for tougher state-sanctioned academic standards and exams. "It's got to be...Tags: Credit and Debt, Teachers, Students, Montgomery County (Pennsylvania), Elections
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Teachers support Common Core standards but worry they are not ready to teach them, poll says
Teachers overwhelmingly support new "Common Core" academic standards in language arts and math, according to a new poll by the American Federation of Teachers. But they also are overwhelmingly worried that new tests tied to those new standards will be...Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Elections, Education, Politics
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Confusion about Common Core
The legislature fiddles while educators wait. That's one way to look at the Indiana General Assembly's decision to "pause" implementing Common Core standards until a study and public hearings are completed. These are the standards the Indiana State...Tags: Arne Duncan, Executive Branch, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Education
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Teachers at UNO charters vote to unionize
Teachers at schools run by the United Neighborhood Organization, one of the largest charter networks in the city, voted Wednesday to unionize. Teachers at privately run, publicly funded charter schools in Chicago have never been part of the Chicago...
Tags: Charter Schools, Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Schools, Chicago Teachers Union
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'Rebalancing' plan for college officials' pay draws protests
A Los Angeles Community College District proposal to lower the car allowances given to campus presidents and other executives — but use the money to boost salaries — has come under fire at a time when many students are unable to get classes...Tags: Colleges and Universities
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Letters: Focus on kids, not tests
Re "Cheating is cheating," Editorial, April 3 You accuse us of weakening our condemnation of test score tampering in Atlanta because we also condemned the climate created by policymakers' fixation on standardized tests. Cheating is cheating. It should...Tags: School Examinations
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Atlanta test scores: Cheating is cheating
If a student cheats on an important test, such as a midterm, he is punished, and rightly so. His teacher doesn't merely brush aside the offense and blame it on all the stressful and unnecessary high-stakes tests that today's unfortunate students are...
Tags: School Examinations, Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Students, Standardized Testing
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