Posts Tagged testing
Students Can Take More Responsibility for Success on State Tests
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on February 28, 2013
Published by EducationNews.org — Test scores go up when the results make a difference to the kids. Otherwise many won’t takes tests seriously. Until the year 2000 I adamantly opposed “high-stakes” state testing, where failure would cost a kid a diploma. Why penalize kids for what the schools failed to do? But that year, in […]
Testing for Fun at School Would Improve Achievement
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on August 9, 2012
Published by EducationNews.org – Finding a way to assess fun in the classroom could help re-center the balance between pleasure and work in schools. Recently an early childhood educator got me and several hundred other people beautifully primed for learning – in about five minutes, ten tops. Maryann Finamore, the Director of the Westbay Children’s Center in […]
