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• Questioning the Wisdom of New, Common Tests

  In a Letter to the editor published online and in print, Maryann Klaus, with 40 years experience as “teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent” questions testing: Why, when all of the research points to gains made by a focus on teaching and learning, formative assessment, teacher collaboration, and strong leadership, is the [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:49pm EST
  by Mark

• Homeschoolers and Texas Drop-out Rate

  This disturbing piece is from May 2001 and re-published yesterday online. Counts don’t add up, by Lucy Hood, Edmund S. Tijerina and Sharon K. Hughes. Some excerpts: To assess the extent of the dropout problem, the newspaper last fall began to track the 1,053 freshmen who enrolled at Holmes in the [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:40pm EST
  by Mark