by Beth Holmes | Sep 28, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
Black students were targeted at an in-school assembly to chastise them for their school’s poor standardized test scores. Students in grades four and five at Bunnell Elementary School were pulled out of class last Friday to attend a lecture in their cafeteria,...
by Supporting Education | Mar 1, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
For years now, teachers’ unions have been pushing the federal government to allow states to opt out of the federal standardized testing requirement. But in its first major act, President Biden’s new Department of Education has announced that states will not be allowed...
by Supporting Education | Jun 5, 2013 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
In the corporate world, salaries are often linked to job performance. How should teachers be evaluated? Should teacher salaries be linked to test scores? There are several factors to consider in the debate over merit pay. On the surface, it sounds like a great...
by Supporting Education | May 24, 2013 | Profiles
There are millions of students, teachers, parents, principals, and education advocates in the United States. Such a large group of people breeds a diverse set of beliefs regarding what is best for the American school system. Diane Ravitch is one person who has been...
by Sarah Green | May 13, 2013 | News
Toxic environments can make a potentially great job terrible, a once happy family miserable, and a place of learning detrimental. And according to one Southeastern Louisiana University professor, James D. Kirylo, that’s just what standardized tests are doing to our...
