Category Archives: Testing
Teacher Appreciation Day … or Not
Teachers are being laid off, furlough days added to the calendar in order to cut back on pay roll, programs are cut, class sizes increasing and the worst is yet to come. Arne Duncan, US Secretary of Education, tells teachers … Continue reading
How Should We Test Students?
My question, unpacked a little bit, is really: Should our tests be designed to learn what students know or should they be designed to find out what students don’t know? Is there a place for both? How do they both … Continue reading
A Quick Look at Differentiated Instruction
Differentiated Instruction, or teaching various levels at the same time to a classroom full of students who are learning at different lessons, is a commonly discussed topic in the schools today. The thing that is interesting is that some of … Continue reading
Focus on Remediation
Remediation seems to be the name of the game in public education these days. In one school, the second grade math lab is being discontinued so that the person who ran that can instead focus on remediation with older students … Continue reading
