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Tag Archives: Mandatory high stakes tests

College Admissions: Merit Matters–UPDATED

December 4, 2022

You’re a college devoted to woke insanity. You admit pretty much anyone whose checks don’t bounce, but you’re absolutely determined …

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The Tyranny Of Testing, Part 5, 2019

June 2, 2019

In the first four articles in this series (enter “testing tyranny 2019″ in the SMM homepage search bar) I explored …

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The Tyranny Of Testing: Part 1, 2019

May 5, 2019

At the end of May, 2013, I began what would turn into a four part series on the problem of …

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Real Education: A Job For Parents

March 3, 2019

As I’ve often written, contemporary K12 education is all about adopting trendy fads, brilliant new ideas that, while utterly ignoring …

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Process Vs. Learning

January 20, 2019

Regular readers know I am a critic of what contemporary education, K-12 and college, is fast becoming.  Mandates of all …

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Research Paper Doom

November 25, 2018

This is a topic to which I occasionally return: research papers.  They are, for English teachers, one of the banes …

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The Point Of Education

August 13, 2018

I often find, usually in breathless headlines, that public education is absolutely worthless. It’s broken! It’s child abuse!  Teachers only care about …

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The Tyranny Of Testing 2018, Part 3

July 15, 2018

In the first article of this series–The Tyranny of Testing 2018 Part 1, I explained the incredible amount of time lost to …

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Fundamentally Transforming Education

January 1, 2018

With the advent of 2018, I thought I’d engage in a bit of a thought experiment. All dedicated teachers find …

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Education: Problems And Solutions, Part 2–2017

September 25, 2017

In Education Problems and Solutions, Part 1–2017, I wrote about how laziness, warped expectations and the demand for “data” have harmed education. …

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Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 4

July 15, 2017

In the first three installments of this series (available here, here and here), I explained some of the many negative effects of …

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Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 3

July 3, 2017

In the first article of this series–Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 1–I explained the incredible amount of time lost to mandatory, …

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Baltimore Schools: Inmates Running The Asylum

June 12, 2017

As regular readers know, I’ve been cataloguing the many failings of government in Baltimore. Crime rates, particularly violent crime rates, …

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Grading The Graders?

January 16, 2017

  Familiarity breeds contempt, or so the old aphorism goes. Virtually all Americans have had the benefit of a K-12 …

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