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The Regents exam
Michael Winerip in Monday’s New York Times: Despite Focus on Data, Standards for Diploma May Still Lack Rigor The next time people try to tell you how much the data-driven education reform programs of...
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Annals of avoidance
Words of One Syllable Department. From David Barnhart on ADS-L, this link to a CNN story by Brian Vitagliano: New York city schools want to ban ‘loaded words’ from tests New York (CNN) – Divorce....
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learning analytics
In my Palo Alto neighborhood, tech companies spring up (and, often, disappear) frequently. Not too long ago, Junyo appeared around the corner from my house, and now the sign on the door has been...
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Watch your words
Two recent news stories on word use, one from a South London school and one from Malaysia. Slang in school. Passed on by Dave Sayers on VAR-L, the variationists’ mailing list: “ ’Like’, ‘innit’ and...
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Books from Stanford
Recent books from Stanford-connected authors, some my colleagues, some my former students (so I have warm feelings). Two in sociolinguistics / educational linguistics, one on the (gasp)...
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Michael Winerip in Monday’s New York Times: Despite Focus on Data, Standards for Diploma May Still Lack Rigor The next time people try to tell you how much the data-driven education reform programs of...
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Words of One Syllable Department. From David Barnhart on ADS-L, this link to a CNN story by Brian Vitagliano: New York city schools want to ban ‘loaded words’ from tests New York (CNN) – Divorce....
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In my Palo Alto neighborhood, tech companies spring up (and, often, disappear) frequently. Not too long ago, Junyo appeared around the corner from my house, and now the sign on the door has been...
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