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Students, parents, teachers voice support of Imagine Imperial Valley to local school board
Staff WriterIn an effort to ensure Imagine Imperial Valley stays open for years to come, parents and students alike pledged the charter school’s good work to the El Centro Elementary School District board of trustees at a meeting Tuesday. More than 50...Tags: Robert J. Lopez, Teaching and Learning, Students
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Divided over L.A. Unified
One nasty election later, there is no sign that the divisiveness in the Los Angeles Unified School District will abate. If anything, it looks likely to increase, with activists in United Teachers Los Angeles announcing that teachers will vote on a...
Tags: Elections, Teachers, Los Angeles Unified School District, Teaching and Learning, Academic Progress
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Perfect standardized test scores will get harder to come by for District 25
With new, higher passing requirements to standardized tests, the high-achieving Arlington Heights School District 25 could see dips and blemishes to some of the schools' perfect and near-perfect state test scores. But officials say those numbers are...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, Greenbrier, Students, School Examinations
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Law could mean sharp drop in Bright Futures recipients
New state rules will slash the number of Palm Beach County students eligible for Bright Futures scholarships, according to an analysis by the University of South Florida in Tampa. The Legislature in 2011 toughened critieria so that students entering...
Tags: Florida State University, High Schools, Colleges and Universities, University of Florida, Financial Aid
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Teachers to vote on 'confidence' in L.A. schools Supt. Deasy
Members of the L.A. teachers union begin casting ballots Tuesday in a symbolic confidence-vote referendum on L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy. The result will have no direct effect on Deasy’s employment but could provide a temperature check on how...
Tags: Elections, Teachers, Unions, Teaching and Learning, Students
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Keystone Exams loophole undermines impact of standardized tests
On the surface, the "Keystone Exams" action by the State Board of Education appears to establish firm standards for high school graduation in Pennsylvania. 'It's official," began Saturday's story in The Morning Call. "Students in Pennsylvania will be...
Tags: Standardized Testing, George W. Bush, Teaching and Learning, Students, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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The test score racket
WASHINGTON -- It is time to acknowledge that the fashionable theory of school reform -- requiring that pay and job security for teachers, principals and administrators depend on their students' standardized test scores -- is at best a well-intentioned...
Tags: Teachers, The Washington Post, Teaching and Learning, Michelle Rhee, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Movement growing to opt out of standardized tests
Daily American Staff WriterAs the annual standardized tests are being administered in Pennsylvania schools starting this week, a movement is growing among parents to opt out of the tests. North Star Superintendent Shawn Kovac said the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment tests...Tags: U.S. Department of Education, Standardized Testing, Washington, DC, Religion and Belief, Teaching and Learning
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The basics of better schools
The bile flowed freely in the first round of L.A.'s school board elections in March, fueled by unprecedented sums of campaign money. To what end? Listening to the ads of the self-styled reformers, you'd have thought that charter schools were the...
Tags: Teachers, Elections, Graduation, Los Angeles Unified School District, Teaching and Learning
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Educator backs state's Keystone Exams
Professional word merchants can get a little insecure when some unjournalist comes along and does a better job of putting passages together. It happens to me all too often. I'll write a column filled with dazzling piquancy and logic, and along comes...Tags: Teachers, Standardized Testing, Kutztown, Teaching and Learning, Students
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Law could mean sharp drop in Bright Futures awards
New state rules will slash the number of Broward County students eligible for Bright Futures scholarships, according to an analysis by the University of South Florida in Tampa. The Legislature in 2011 toughened critieria so that students entering...
Tags: Florida State University, High Schools, Broward County, University of Florida, Colleges and Universities
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Deasy orders test scores to count for 30% of teachers' evaluations
L.A. NOWL.A. schools Supt. John Deasy announced Friday that 30% of a teacher’s evaluation will be based on student standardized test scores, setting off another round of contention in the nation’s second-largest school system just weeks before a...
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|Column| Allentown Morning Call
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|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Apr 8, 2013
|Story| Daily American
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|Column| Allentown Morning Call
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|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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