AvatarErica RDiscipline Suffers as San Diego Schools Adopt ‘Anti-Racism’ Grading Systemverified_publisherdailysignal.com - Jarrett StepmanEquality is out and “equity” is in. The San Diego Unified School District has approved a change to its grading system that coincides with broader …
AvatarErica RPROOF POINTS: White and female teachers show racial bias in evaluating second grade writingThe Hechinger Report - by Jill BarshayRacial bias in grading is a persistent and knotty problem. It’s one of the reasons that it’s better to grade essay exams blind without students’ …
AvatarErica RWe Build Boring Schools, Then We Put Them Online--Science Has The FixForbes - Tom Vander ArkWe created boring schools and then put them online. Our focus on testing made learning small and easy to grade rather than valuable. We pretend there is an average kid who is supposed to be at this thing called grade level. We organize secondary schools in ways that prevents us from understanding …
AvatarErica RDon't Make Assumptions About Your ELL Students (Opinion)edweek.org - Larry Ferlazzo(This the fifth post in a six-part series. You can see Part One here, Part Two here, Part Three here, and Part Four here.) The new …
AvatarErica RA Teacher Revisits the Sustained Silent Reading Debateedweek.org - Liana LoewusOver at MiddleWeb, middle school teacher Amber Rain Chandler describes an internal struggle that many English/language arts instructors will find …
AvatarErica RThe perils of "Growth Mindset" education: Why we're trying to fix our kids when we should be fixing the systemverified_publisherSalon - By Alfie KohnOne of the most popular ideas in education these days can be summarized in a single sentence (a fact that may help to account for its popularity). Here's the sentence: Kids tend to fare better when they regard intelligence and other abilities not as fixed traits that they either have or lack, but as …