Tag Archives: National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing

IRS Targeting, the Atlanta Cheating Scandal and the Bush-Rhee High-Stakes Test Model

Posted on May 19, 2013 by

Imagine for a minute that the opposite is true and that the United States abruptly switched from a flat tax to the federal tax code we have now? Frightening huh? Yet this is essentially what the nation’s two top education policy-makers … Continue reading →

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Florida’s New High School Requirements and Alternatives Show Legislators Were Listening

Posted on March 29, 2013 by

Some could say that they even offered a mea culpa. From Travis Pillow in the Tallahassee Democrat: The expansion of career education has been tied to broader changes to high school graduation requirements in competing proposals advanced by both House … Continue reading →

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Another Bush Chief For Change, Another Misinformation Campaign

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

It appears that another one of Bush’s Chiefs for Change, Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Janet Barresi, is on a similar state-wide tour to advance another Bush policy. And like Robinson in Florida last year, Barresi is spinning to protect his agenda. From … Continue reading →

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Florida Chamber of Commerce Legislative Goals: Merit Pay, Union Busting and Protecting High-Stakes Testing

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

After cutting through lofty platitudes in their legislative agenda the FCOC include these talking points about education. First in their letter to “Letter to Florida Business Leaders” *Education reform is hurting because union leaders make it about the adults when it … Continue reading →

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Pinellas SB Member on SB 736: “We are building on a very flawed and invalid system”

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

From Tampa Bay Times reporters Curtis Krueger and Lisa Gartner: The School Board unanimously voted on Tuesday to tweak the system Pinellas uses to evaluate teachers — but that doesn’t mean members are happy. “We are building on a very … Continue reading →

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Parents, Teachers Put Scott, Board of Ed and Bennett On Notice

Posted on December 13, 2012 by

The state’s established parent groups – including the PTA – began signaling the day before Tony Bennett’s appointment as Florida’s new education commissioner that the BOE’s  selection of candidates promised to be so divisive that it would  assign them as … Continue reading →

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St. Johns’ School Board Expected to Pass Resolution On High Stakes Testing; Meanwhile Rick Scott Plans Listening Tour

Posted on September 9, 2012 by

Writes Teresa Stepzinski for the St. Augustine Record: The board for the state’s best school district is poised to criticize Florida’s reliance on high-stakes testing to measure student achievement. The St. Johns County School Board has proposed a resolution asking … Continue reading →

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Really, Rick? So FCAT is OVERemphasized Now?

Posted on August 21, 2012 by

Here’s what Governor Rick Scott says in a new ad: “I’ve learned a lot as governor – you can study all the numbers you want, but listening to parents and teachers is still the best education,” Scott says in the … Continue reading →

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Why Hillsborough School Board’s Passage of Resolution on High-Stakes Testing Means More

Posted on August 1, 2012 by

From the Tampa Bay Times Marlene Sokol: Testing — the subject of school board resolutions around the nation and state — has troubled (Board Chairwoman Candy) Olson for months. At the board workshop on the issue, members spent more than … Continue reading →

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Duval to Consider Resolution on High-Stakes Testing Today

Posted on July 31, 2012 by

Froe Florida Times-Union reporter Teresa Stepzinski: The Duval County School Board on Tuesday will discuss whether to jump on the bandwagon of school districts statewide calling for alternatives to the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. It will take up the matter … Continue reading →

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