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by Ann Dornfeld, Mind/Shift
An entire school of teachers in Seattle is refusing to give students a standardized test that’s required by the district. The teachers say the test is useless and wastes valuable instructional time.
Meanwhile, individual teacher protests of standardized tests are popping up nationwide, and the Seattle case may make bigger waves.
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by Ava Arsaga, Parent Cortical Mass
This week E3, congressional actions, graduations, and Game of Thrones figured in the learning and education news for parents. Delete the scoop?
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by Justin Reich, Education Week
Two studies of student surveys from 1996 and 2011 show remarkably similar patterns of technology usage and inequalities. Delete the scoop?
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by Motoko Rich, New York Times
With school districts rushing to buy computers, tablets, digital white boards and other technology, a new report questions whether the investment is worth it. Delete the scoop?
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by The Economist
HERE’S a multiple-choice question: if the federal government penalises states where pupils do badly in school, but lets the states themselves set the pass mark, will the states a) make the tests harder; or b) dumb them down? Small wonder parents are crying out for grades that mean something.
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by Justin Reich, Education Week
One might expect me to recommend things related to the use of technologies in schools. But what I think of as high-quality, technology-rich education for all students in schools depends upon fundamental changes in our national system of schooling and national ecology of learning. Education technology needs education reform much more than education reform needs education technology. Delete the scoop?
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by Lisa Fleisher, Wall Street Journal
Justice Alice Schlesinger ruled against parents who asked the judge to block the city from sending out admissions offers for the elite program.
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by Ava Arsaga, Parent Cortical Mass
After a few weeks spent relocating from Chicago to Cambridge, we are back with our weekly Top Articles newsletter. Delete the scoop?
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President Obama today unveiled a bold, new initiative called ConnectED to connect 99 percent of America’s students to the internet through high-speed broadband and high-speed wireless within 5 years, calling on the FCC to modernize and leverage its existing E-Rate program to meet that goal. The President also directed the federal government to make better use of existing funds to get Internet connectivity and educational technology into classrooms, and into the hands of teachers trained on its advantages. And he called on businesses, states, districts, schools and communities to support this vision. This ambitious initiative does not require Congressional action. Delete the scoop?
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by Annie Murphy Paul, The Brilliant Blog
How to promote ethical behavior on the job? “A common opinion is that the way to avoid ethical lapses is to figure out how to hire good people,” writes Christopher M. Barnes on the website of the Harvard Business Review. “Good people do good things and bad people do bad things: it’s as simple as that.” Delete the scoop?
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by Peg Tyre, Smithsonian
Kids may know their way around a computer, but in order to get a job in the new economy, they will have to know how to write a program, not just use one Delete the scoop?
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by Peter Wallsten and Lyndsey Layton, Wshington Post
They are urging GOP governors to retreat from a rare bipartisan initiative that President Obama supports. Delete the scoop?
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by Annie Murphy Paul, The Brilliant Blog
In a paper published earlier this week in the journal Science, researchers report that they have found three robust regions in the human genome that are tied to educational attainment, writes Paul Voosen in the Chronicle of Higher Education. But the links they found...
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by Ava Arsaga, Parent Cortical Mass
Have you been hearing about “grit” and “character education”? Watch the TED talk by Angela Duckworth, the U Penn researcher whose work launched the grit offensive, and see what you think. Wonder why so many tech leaders say kids need to learn to code? Mitch Resnick’s simple stories will help you understand. Then, check out the list of 40 Tools that get kids coding. Delete the scoop?
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by Yasmin Anwar, UC Berkeley News Center
Long before Amy Chua’s provocative 2011 memoir,Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, raised the bar for tough-love parenting, psychologists at UC Berkeley were studying the effects of three kinds of child-rearing: authoritarian (too hard), permissive... Delete the scoop?
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We have a romantic attachment to skills from the past which are no longer relevant on a curriculum for today's children Via Ana Cristina Pratas 
Sue Osborne's curator insight,
June 16, 7:36 PM
At the centre of this article there is truth, which is that our children need "new" skills and new ways of developing and using the "old" ones. However, I think there is room for them all, if the curriculum is formulated the right way. Inquiry-based learning, letting the kids ask a question and then search for the answer using a number of resources, is definitely the way to go. Personally I think there will ALWAYS be a place for being able to do maths the old fashioned way, so you understand how it works, but there is also a time to let the technology take you further, to increase that understanding. Room for both. 
Allan Shaw's curator insight,
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Linda Alexander summarised my thoughts beautifully!
'While I agree with the basis of this article, we do have a romantic attachment to the past, especially parents who want their children to experience schools as they DID, I don't completely agree with this article. There are reasons for understanding the "way things work" and there are reasons for knowing one's history--as Winston Churchill said, "Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it." That said, this article really speaks to the way we go about learning and, yes, that has really changed.'
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Today, 1:25 AM
Linda Alexander summarised it well!
'While I agree with the basis of this article, we do have a romantic attachment to the past, especially parents who want their children to experience schools as they DID, I don't completely agree with this article. There are reasons for understanding the "way things work" and there are reasons for knowing one's history--as Winston Churchill said, "Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it." That said, this article really speaks to the way we go about learning and, yes, that has really changed.' Delete the scoop?
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by Lyndsey Layton, Washington Post
The education secretary is working to build support among Republicans for a new tobacco tax to pay for the plan. Delete the scoop?
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by Sean Coughlan, BBC
The global figure for the number of children without access to schools has fallen, says Unesco. But so has funding and international targets are set to be missed. Delete the scoop?
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by Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney, Real Clear Politics In this month’s employment analysis, The Hamilton Project examines whether starting college is worth it for students who fail to complete a degree. Our startling finding is that it is: these students’ lifetime earnings are roughly $100,000 higher (in present value) than that of their peers who ended their education after high school. Measured by the rate of return, getting some college is an investment with a return that exceeds the historical return on practically any conventional investment, Delete the scoop?
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by Jay Matthews, Washington Post
I am against reforms like the parent trigger, but maybe it’s better we wait and see what happens with them. Delete the scoop?
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by Valerie Strauss, Washington Post
A coalition of education organizations and unions that support the Common Core State Standardsissued an open letter on Thursday backing a moratorium of at least one year on the high stakes associated with new standardized tests being given to students that are aligned with the Core. Delete the scoop?
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by David L. Kirp, Slate
It’s a terrible time for advocates of market-driven reform in public education. Delete the scoop?
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by Sara Mead, Education Week
For the last two years, I've published a series of profiles of young education leaders who are helping to transform education today and are likely to have an even greater impact in the coming years. Delete the scoop?
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by Ava Arsaga, Parent Cortical Mass
When you relocate it generally takes two years before your new city feels like home. With some effort you can shorten that time, but you cannot get the time below one year. One year is the minimum, sorry. Delete the scoop?
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by Stephanie Simon, Reuters
A $100 million database set up to store extensive records on millions of public school students has stumbled badly since its launch this spring, with officials in several states backing away... Delete the scoop?
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by Martin R. West, Brookings
Will Common Core, designed to standardize the curriculum in core academic subjects and eliminate differences in the definition of student proficiency, affect the public's perception of the quality of their state and local schools? Delete the scoop?
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Standardized tests don't test the learning that's set by curriculum. Fine if those tests are infrequent, or low stakes, but NOT fine if tests are frequent and high-stakes. The tests are like using a wrench to remove a screw...it's the wrong tool for the job.