Getting to the Bottom of the Reading Scores
School districts from New York City to Buffalo found plenty to cheer about when the state released the results of this year's English Language Arts exam. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg once again...
View ArticleSAT II: College Board Reacts
Laurence Bunin, senior vice president for College Success at the College Board, which oversees the SAT, responds to recent research which found that the SAT is racially biased.
View ArticleUnfair SATs
Jay Mathews, who writes the Class Struggle blog for the Washington Post, discusses recent findings suggesting that the SAT may be racially biased and how fewer universities are using the test to...
View ArticleScience 101: Heat and Thermal Conductivity
Last year, New York City's 4th and 8th graders scored below both the state and national averages on a nationwide science exam. Today, Katie Gardner, Science Educator at Liberty Science Center, answers...
View ArticleNYC Leaving Teacher Data Reports to the State
The city will no longer produce its controversial teacher data reports, based on student test scores. Instead, New York State will be producing that information.Starting next summer, the state will...
View ArticleDigital Learning Reexamined
New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel talks about the gap between the promises of educational software companies and the test score results in schools.
View ArticleRegents Board Approves Grading Ban
New York's Board of Regents has approved a ban against teachers' grading their own students' state standardized tests. The ban is part of an effort to stop cheating on the exams, which not only...
View ArticleSchoolBook: High School Admissions
Parents and students find out NYC High school admissions on Friday. Beth Fertig, WNYC's education reporter and contributor to SchoolBook, discusses the effect of tutoring and test prep.
View ArticleCity on Common Core Testing
This year's state tests for grades 3-8 will reflect new Common Core standards. Shael Polakow-Suransky, New York City's Chief Academic Officer, discusses next week's testing and the concern about the...
View ArticleFederal Test Scores Show Dips by City Students
Students in fourth and eighth grade at New York City schools scored slightly lower on federal math tests this year compared with 2009, according to scores released Wednesday morning. The results from...
View ArticleCoaching, Not 'Moneyball,' Will Improve Teaching
I am an avid baseball fan. And though I live in the heart of Yankees territory, I remain faithfully devoted to my hometown Boston Red Sox -- a team whose management is known for applying sophisticated...
View ArticlePrincipals Criticize Increased Costs of Test Scoring
Add this to the many complaints being made this year about the statewide standardized tests: City principals are grumbling that their teachers will have to spend more time away from classes this month...
View ArticleReport Finds Student Performance on State Exams Remains Consistent
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the schools chancellor, Dennis M. Walcott, often boast that student performance is improving in New York City, as evidenced by the percentage of students passing state...
View ArticleModest Rise in City Test Scores
6:41 p.m. | Updated For a second consecutive year, city students achieved slight gains on elementary and middle school statewide tests that were made more difficult two years ago after state officials...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week (Decade?): Are Charter Schools Better?
Are charters really doing a better job educating the city’s public school students than the traditional public schools? That was the question of the week, after state test scores came out on Tuesday...
View ArticleTeachers Tell Parents to See Test Scores as 'Snapshots'
2:04 p.m. | Updated Parents and guardians are getting word Thursday that they can view test scores from the state tests, via the ARIS parent link, a few days earlier than previously announced.And as...
View ArticleTop 12 Testing Snafus
The current delay scoring New York City students’ Regents exams is just the latest mess-up in an industry with a history of high-profile flubs.It’s not even the biggest testing mistake in the city this...
View ArticleThe Voices Inside You
Where would we be without the voices in our heads? To get at this question, Charles Fernyhough raises another: can children think before they have words? According to Fernyhough, a Russian psychologist...
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After 12 Years of Bloomberg, Data Reigns in the Schools
It’s no surprise that a mayor who built his fortune developing a computer system that gave the financial industry access to immense amounts of data would apply a technocratic approach to government....
View ArticleNYC Leaving Teacher Data Reports to the State
The city will no longer produce its controversial teacher data reports, based on student test scores. Instead, New York State will be producing that information.Starting next summer, the state will...
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