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Category Archives: Grading

The harm of local grading in a world of standards: what NAEP reveals (Thoughtlessness part 4)

September 22, 2012

Once again the recently released NAEP results reveal that American student achievement in writing is far worse than local report …

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National Standards and local grading: an F for the failure to discuss it

September 5, 2011

Yet another document related to national standards has been released: the SMARTER balanced assessment consortium report. There are some nice …

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Grant Wiggins is the co-author of Understanding by Design and the author of Educative Assessment and numerous articles on education. He is the President of Authentic Education in Hopewell NJ. You can read more about him and his work at the AE site (click here)

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Recent Posts

  • On close reading, part 2
  • What, exactly, is close reading of the text?
  • 20 years later: the immorality of test security, revisited
  • The Common Core Standards: a Defense
  • Beginnings, and their educational importance
  • The break-things-into-bits mistake we have been making in education for centuries – happening today with standards
  • Dereliction of duty by HS teachers
  • My 100th post. So why not bash algebra?
  • The Standards and creativity – compatible
  • Guest post: more on strategy and tactics in teaching (in this case, English)
  • Radical test prep
  • An excerpt from our just-released book on Essential Questions
  • On strategy, part 2: response to feedback on earlier post about the mess of ‘reading strategies’
  • Webinar on design thinking
  • On so-called ‘reading strategies’ – the utter mess that is the literature and advice to teachers
  • The E. Tipp middle school problem solvers, part 3
  • The power of modeling and performance: a guest post on the Suzuki method of music teaching
  • The E. Tipp middle school problem solvers, part 2
  • The budding mathematicians at East Tipp Middle School and the mystery of the lost information
  • Autonomy and the need to back off by design as teachers
  • hiring, part 2: A friend responds with an interesting example in medicine
  • On genuine vs. bogus inquiry – using EQs properly
  • On Rubrics and Models, Part 2: A Dialogue
  • UbD and serendipity: why planning helps rather than hinders creativity
  • hiring: what we can learn from a sushi restaurant
  • Intelligent vs. thoughtless use of rubrics and models (Part 1)
  • Avoiding stupidification
  • 2012 in review
  • The odd correlation between SES and achievement: why haven’t more critical questions been asked? A call to action
  • Math as artistry: an interview with Steve Strogatz, mathematician
  • Is that story about me? Latino children, books, and literacy
  • The 31 most influential classic books in education – a crowd-sourced list
  • How do you plan? On templates and instructional planning
  • Good vs. great teachers: how do you wish to be remembered?
  • Reform, humility, and thanksgiving
  • Escaping Isolation: Twitter and transparency

Useful Sites

  • Authentic Education – home page
  • Models by Design – Alexis Wiggins
  • Washington Post Education Page

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  • ELA/ENGLISH new blog post- on close reading of text: a detailed look, with many great resources: grantwiggins.wordpress.com 3 days ago
  • Finland's ed expert: US reforms doomed to fail, based on bad assumptions: washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-s… 4 days ago

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RSS Curriculum Matters Blog

  • Khan Academy to Focus on Common-Core Math With Private Grant
    Fueled by a $2.2 million grant, Khan Academy will develop online content and tools over the next two years to help teachers and students meet the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics. The popular producer of free online content already has a large volume of practice materials and videos that are "mapped" to the common-core math standards, a p […]
    Erik Robelen
  • 40 States Probed Alleged Cheating on Tests, Federal Report Finds
    A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office has found that most states have looked into allegations of cheating by school officials on state tests in the past two years. The study, released this week, found that 33 states confirmed at least one such case of cheating, and 32 reported invalidating test scores as a result of cheating. The report […]
    Catherine Gewertz
  • Adoption of New Science Standards May Start With Rhode Island
    Rhode Island may prove to be the first state to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards issued in final form last month. The state board of education is expected to vote on the standards at its next meeting, on May 23. I'm told that the standards had a "very positive reception" among board members at a May 8 work session. The Ocean State w […]
    Erik Robelen
  • Math-Tutoring Initiative With a Twist Aims to Help Chicago Youths
    An initiative that blends intensive math tutoring with a group-counseling intervention to keep kids from getting involved in violent activity will soon be offered to up to 1,000 adolescent boys in a dozen Chicago public schools, according to a press release issued yesterday. The tutoring component is based on a program developed in 2004 at the Match public c […]
    Erik Robelen
  • NAEP Faces Budget Ax: Social Studies Exams to Be Scaled Back
    Talk about a teachable moment in civics class. NAEP, a.k.a. "the nation's report card," for civics, history, and geography is being scaled back as a result of budget cuts required through sequestration, as my colleague Alyson Klein reports over at Politics K-12. The result is that only 8th graders will take the exam for the time being. The exe […]
    Erik Robelen
  • Algebra 2 Pushback Turns Up in Michigan With House Measure
    Algebra 2 may be falling out of political favor in another state, this time Michigan. A Michigan House committee this month approved changes to state graduation requirements, including allowing students to skip Algebra 2 if they instead take a career and technical education course, the Associated Press reports. One reason this is noteworthy is that it could […]
    Erik Robelen

RSS Class Struggles – Jay Matthews

  • Miriam Hughey-Guy, one of best principals ever, transforms an Arlington school
    Five years ago, I thought I was going to catch Miriam Hughey-Guy, principal of Barcroft Elementary School in Arlington County, making an excuse for her school’s failure to reach federal proficiency targets three years in a row. Read full article >>    
    Jay Mathews
  • A powerful term in U.S. high schools: DBQ
    You may not know what a DBQ is. For most of my life, neither did I. But in the high schools of this region and the rest of the country it has become an important and in some ways fearsome term. It haunts the dreams of 400,000 teenagers who will take the Advanced Placement exam in U.S. history Wednesday. It is part of a massive reform of the AP exam system th […]
    Jay Mathews
  • Two D.C. high schools dare to require deep research
    I often despair over the sorry state of writing and research in our high schools. Only private schools and public schools with the International Baccalaureate diploma program require research papers of significant length. Two million new high school graduates head to college every year — but only 10 percent, by my reckoning — have had to write a long paper o […]
    Jay Mathews

RSS NY Times on Education

  • The Caucus: Obama Urges Morehouse Graduates to ‘Keep Setting an Example’
    President Obama told Morehouse College graduates that “laws, hearts and minds have been changed to the point where someone who looks like you can serve as president.”    
    By MARK LANDLER
  • The Learning Network Blog: Fill-In | Veeck’s Son Dusts Off Old Idea and Crowdsources the Umpiring
    Fill in the blanks in the first 10 paragraphs of the article “Veeck’s Son Dusts Off Old Idea and Crowdsources the Umpiring” by Pat Borzi.    
    By SHANNON DOYNE
  • The Choice Blog: Long Journey to College, but I Was Never Alone
    In the beginning, my dream of attending college in the United States with limited funds seemed to be just that: a dream. However, I am grateful to have had friends and family who were always supportive.    
    By SUSH KRISHNAMOORTHY

RSS Learning Matters – John Merrow

  • Michelle Rhee and the Washington Post
  • Subtracting to Add
  • Arne Duncan’s Moment of Truth
  • Penetrating the Smokescreen

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