by edtosavetheworld | Jun 24, 2015 | Testing and Assessments, wellness
Earlier this month, art students at Burlington High School in Massachusetts were asked to create pieces that responded to this question: “How do you FEEL about standardized tests?” Their teacher, Ms. Chang, published some of their pieces on her class...
by edtosavetheworld | Jun 8, 2015 | Influential Thinkers, News and Trends, Testing and Assessments
Emulating the style of a famous report published 30 years ago called A Nation at Risk, Yong Zhao urges us to stop tweaking education and overhaul it. “History is not kind to idlers” (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983, p.1). It is even crueler to...
by edtosavetheworld | Apr 23, 2015 | Stage 5: Students as World Changers, Testing and Assessments
Many of us are in the throes of testing season, and with many schools implementing the new CCSS aligned tests for the first time, it is bound to be a month of fret and anxiety. I remember administrators at my previous school declaring “no field trips in...
by edtosavetheworld | Apr 9, 2015 | Testing and Assessments
I had dinner last night with a good friend of mine who gave me his impassioned reasons why we should abolish national, yearly standardized tests and his skepticism of the Common Core. My friend’s main argument is that standardized tests harm low-income, minority...
by edtosavetheworld | Mar 12, 2015 | Testing and Assessments
Although I haven’t formally run the stats, I’m pretty sure this is our most popular post of all time. And it’s no secret why: assessment is HARD, and it drives so many other things we do as educators. If you’ve been struggling to assess...
by edtosavetheworld | Jan 15, 2015 | Testing and Assessments
I love this image we created for our Fellowship Summit. How long has our modern design for schools been in existence? It often feels like we’ve always done school with desks in rows and a teacher in the front, students separated by age and written tests to check...
