Testing The Right Stuff

by | Nov 17, 2010 | School Reform, Student Learning | 3 comments

Standardized testing has received a lot of criticism these days. For many, standardized tests embody all that is wrong in schools. Many justifiably claim that standardized tests prompt educators to obsessively focus on a few key variables and that that narrow focus...

Hope

by | Nov 16, 2010 | Improving Instruction, Student Learning | 4 comments

“Dialogue cannot be carried on in a climate of hopelessness. If the dialoguers expect nothing to come of their efforts, their encounters will be empty, sterile, bureaucratic and tedious.”  Paulo Freire I learned about the power of hope the first year I taught at...