Tag : “high stakes testing”

Wrestling with Myself

April 26, 2016Beth Maloney Current Affairs, Education, Elementary, Life in the Classroom, Parent Involvment

Marcus Aurelius said, “The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” No time of the school year feels more like wrestling than testing season. Between analyzing benchmark results and the looming high-stakes tests, it feels like the perfect

Tripping Over the Bar

September 19, 2012Mike Lee Assessment, Current Affairs, Education, Education Policy

For all of our conversation about critical thinking and higher level skills, we certainly spend much of our time preparing students for lower level skill assessments. If this is the case, just how low is the bar for those top performers?