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Excerpt from Blame the Teacher Syndrome by Jack Random:When a district in Rhode Island announced its intention to fire all teachers at Central Falls High School in an unmistakable gesture of blame seeking, I knew without knowing it was an impoverished school. When a school board in Kansas City announced it would close 28 schools before the start ...

Well, the new health care legislation is in trouble, and President Obama needs something to show that his administration can get things done, in Washington. Politicians favorite vote getting topic has always been the decline of public education.  This administration is no different from all the other administrations.  Unlike the health ...

In education news, President Obama has voiced support for the mass firings of every teacher at a public high school in Rhode Island. Last week, all ninety-three teachers and school personnel at Central Falls High School were told they were being fired at the end of the school year because of the school’s low achievement scores and low graduation ...

  CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. — Like many other teenagers in this troubled city, Sheila Gomes said she found a surrogate family outside her home at Central Falls High School.   But with the school board’s decision on Tuesday to dismiss the entire faculty as part of a turnaround plan for the chronically underperforming school, some say ...

How is the No Child Left Behind Law effecting the atmosphere in our schools with its over emphasis on testing? This humorous video made independently by author/teacher Barry Lane describes it well. Barry wants everyone who sees this to check visit the educator roundtable website and see what other teachers, parents and children are saying about ...

Nearly a quarter century ago, ''A Nation at Risk'' hit our schools like a brick dropped from a penthouse window. One problem: The landmark document that still shapes our national debate on education was misquoted, misinterpreted, and often dead wrong.   Click on the link below to read the complete ...

In the state of Texas, whose standardized, high-stakes test-based accountability system became the model for the nation's most comprehensive federal education policy, more than 135,000 youth are lost from the state's high schools every year. Dropout rates are highest for African American and Latino youth, more than 60% for the students we ...

When comparing the United States with other countries, you are still comparing apples to oranges.  Read this study from Kappa Delta Pi that shows the you cannot always believe what you hear.Click on the link below to read the complete study:http://www.education.umd.edu/news/timssarticleholliday.pdf

Standards and high stakes tests have used concepts such as ''world class,''  ''accountability,''  ''competitive,'' and ''standards'' that are taken directly from the corporate world.  Alfie Kohn (2002) makes the argument that ''anyone whose goal was to serve-up our schools to the market-place could hardly find a shrewder strategy ...

  The purposes of this critical analysis are to clarify why high stakes testing reforms have become so prevalent in the United States and to explain the connection be- tween current federal and state emphases on standardized testing reforms and educational opportunities. The article outlines the policy context for high stakes examinations, ...