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As a follow-up about the issues I raised in a recent post comparing PSSA scores over the years and about which I made public comment at last Thursday’s Board Meeting, the District is in the process of taking a look at Math. I am told the two high school principals are collecting data, and that [...]
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Today’s Courier Times has an article by Joan Hellyer (who does a very good job reporting on education issues) about a change by the Pennsylvania Department of Education on testing of Special Education students. There will be new tests in lieu of PSSAs and also a change in how their results will get factored into [...]
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Today’s Courier Times contains an interesting guest editorial from Simon Campbell in Pennsbury discussing the need to introduce merit pay and to end the current system of tenure. As part of the write-up, the writer cites statements made by Bob Chanin, retiring general counsel of the NEA (National Education Association), the teachers’ union. The comments [...]
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The Courier Times ran an editorial today (here’s the link) about PSSAs being flawed and producing a distorted picture, measuring unrealistic goals. It repeats all sorts of positions heard from school officials over the years that these tests don’t provide a valid system of measurement and don’t properly measure progress. It ends by stating that [...]
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As I wrote on the blog yesterday, 2009 PSSA results are in. And while standardized tests aren’t the be-all-and-end-all, they do provide one measure of performance. I mentioned that one hazard when looking at results would be to compare how any given grade level did this year compared to the same grade level last year. [...]
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The results are now in for Districts and Schools for the PSSA tests taken last Spring. These contain a ton of data and provide one way of looking at progress and problems. You can see the data at this link to the Pennsylvania Department of Education (along with links there to prior year data). When [...]
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