News: High Stakes Assessment
Closing Secondary Students’ Significant Academic Skill Gaps: Teach at Their Grade Level or Their Skill Level? (Part II)
Reviewing Two Recent Studies of Math Deficient StudentsDear Colleagues,Introduction Two Blog messages ago (on September 28th), I began a two-part discussion on:Closing Academic Gaps in Mid...
Read Full ArticleThe Journey toward Real School Equity: Students’ Needs Should Drive Student Services … and Funding (Part II)
The Beginning of the Next School Year Starts Now: The “Get-Go Process”Dear Colleagues,Introduction Last week, on May 17th, the 65th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education...
Read Full ArticleSolving Student Crises in the Context of School Inequity: The Case for “Core-Plus District Funding” (Part I)
When Schools Struggle with Struggling Students: “We Didn’t Start the Fire”Dear Colleagues,Introduction The last two weeks have been a blur. Just over two weeks ago, I landed in...
Read Full ArticleBack to the Future: What My High School Reunion Reminded Me about High School Reform
The Non-Academic Essentials for High School Students’ SuccessDear Colleagues,Introduction I hope that all of you had a great summer. . . but for some of you, the summer is over, and the new school y...
Read Full ArticleGrade Retention is NOT an Intervention: How WE Fail Students when THEY are Failing in School
Improving Grade Retention Policy, Practice, and ResultsDear Colleagues,Last week, I was sitting in on a series of meetings between the multidisciplinary Student Assistance Team (involving the Principa...
Read Full ArticleCorrecting the Flaws: The Feds’ Thinking on Academic Proficiency and Results Driven Accountability
Connecting and Correcting the Flaws in (ESEA's) High Stakes Proficiency Assessments of Students' Academic Achievement and (OSEP's) the New Special Education Results Driven Accountability SystemDear Co...
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