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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: Nebraska
When you come across howlers like, "Teachers like Suzanne and kids like Micah are coinvestigating teaching and learning through classroom assessment instead of stopping their wonderful, furious activity to take sterile, standardized state tests," you know you're hearing from someone used to preaching to the choir, a choir with a very limited range. Gaps in reading achievement between White kids and Black kids and White kids and Hispanic kids have been increasing in Nebraska in 4th grade reading and have closed slightly if at all in math. Tell me again how all that "coinvestigating" is helping those kids. Art -----Original Message----- From: Monty Neill <monty@fairtest.org> To: care@yahoogroups.com; ARN-state@yahoogroups.com; ARN-L <arn-l@interversity.org>; arn2-strategy <arn2-strategy@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 2:19 pm Subject: [arn-l] Nebraska Chris Gallagher, author of the excellent book about Nebraska, "Reclaiming Assessment," has a fine fairly short paper about changes in Nebraska in the wake of the development of the local assessment system. A link to the PDF of Chris's paper can be found at: http://www.ndsg.org/documents.html The exact URL to Chris's paper is: http://www.ndsg.org/documents/Gallagher_NE_NDSG_Presentation_2008.pdf Monty Neill, Ed.D. Deputy Director FairTest 342 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02139 617-864-4810 x 101; fax 617-497-2224 monty@fairtest.org http://www.fairtest.org Donate: https://secure.entango.com/servlet/donate/MnrXjT8MQqk----------------------------------------------- Report list problems to listmom@interversity.net ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
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