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Beyond the Test Scores at the Harlem Children’s Zone

April 5, 2016May 24, 2016 - by Anjali Tsui

When the Harlem Children’s Zone opened a charter school in a housing project, it set out to raise test scores. While grades haven’t improved dramatically, the school has helped to create a community and is slowly changing the culture of the neighborhood.

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Book Review: Success Across the Hudson

March 3, 2016March 3, 2016 - by Aleksandra Konstantinovic

A once vital industrial hub in New Jersey remakes its school system by building on its strengths, emphasizing “the ensemble, not the prima donna.”

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Book Review: Building A Better Teacher by Elizabeth Green

April 15, 2015March 25, 2020 - by Pola Lem

Imagine you’re given several years of pedagogical study (or several weeks of training, as the case may be). Then you are thrown into a dunk tank, a classroom full of …

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Opt-Out Movement Draws Teachers to Its Ranks

April 3, 2014 - by William Huntsberry

Teachers and administrators are taking on leading roles in opting students out of standardized tests.

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Ravitch Takes Aim at the Marketplace Reformers

March 6, 2014March 6, 2014 - by Madeleine Cummings

Diane Ravitch takes critical aim at American education reform in The Death and Life of the Great American School System (2010), evaluating the effectiveness of standardized testing, choice, and charter …

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New York Becomes First State to Drop GED

March 10, 2013March 11, 2013 - by Mariana Ionova

This week, New York became the first state to opt out of the GED, the most widely used high-school equivalency test in the country, according to the Wall Street Journal. …

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Pineapple was Originally an Eggplant

May 1, 2012May 1, 2012 - by Carla Bleiker

“The Hare and the Pineapple,” the story that stumped eighth-grade test takers last month, was changed by test publishers for the New York State Reading Exam. One crucial switch: the …

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Talking Pineapple Question Stumps Students

April 27, 2012April 27, 2012 - by Kimberly Drelich

A question on an eighth-grade state test regarding talking pineapples puzzled students and teacher and led to criticism, The New York Daily News reported.

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Can an e-Rater grade the truth?

April 27, 2012April 27, 2012 - by Kimberly Drelich

A study by the College of Education at the University of Akron found that computers can accurately grade test essays, but New York Times columnist, Michael Winerip, explores how the “e-Rater” can be faulty.

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