What went wrong with the CCSS, testing and evaluation systems? According to Curmudgucation: When you fail to anticipate how live human beings are going to react to your program, that is a failure of you and your program, not of those human beings. Italics are mine. I went into teaching with a certain expectation: That […]
Educating Our Invisible Children
Earlier this month, I wrote about a student of mine whose future will be severely impaired by the current high stakes testing regime. She is not the only one. My article mentioned the a few of the kids who have been in the news lately because of their extreme circumstances. But what about the invisible […]
It’s Time To Slay The High-Stakes Testing Beast
We’ve booted out CCSS — but it wasn’t the biggest beast in the room. We still have high-stakes testing, the vicious monster that is labeling, categorizing, and killing our children’s love of learning. Yes, it is time to slay the beast! Michelle WatersI am a secondary English Language Arts teacher, a University of Oklahoma student working […]