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Star Rating System Totally Unfair to School Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens
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Star Rating System Totally Unfair to School Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens

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Nowell Leadership Academy is a school designed to serve students who are over-age, under-credited, and either pregnant or already parenting at least one child. They are students whose path to graduation was so rocky in the traditional school system that any chance of them graduating four years from the day they started 9th grade disappeared… Continue reading Star Rating System Totally Unfair to School Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens

3rd Grade Reading Tells Us a Lot About Who Is Likely To Finish High School
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3rd Grade Reading Tells Us a Lot About Who Is Likely To Finish High School

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Third grade reading scores are a very big deal because they are accepted as the most predictive indicator of whether a student will finish high school. Hey Rhode Island, our 3rd grade reading results should be a very loud wake up call. Despite some significant improvements since 2015, our results were flat between last year… Continue reading 3rd Grade Reading Tells Us a Lot About Who Is Likely To Finish High School

How About Pro-Teacher Teachers’ Unions?
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How About Pro-Teacher Teachers’ Unions?

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By Peter Cunningham On August 1, Celine Coggins, a former classroom teacher who founded an organization called Teach Plus, will publish a new book about the importance of engaging teachers in policy development. It’s called “How to Be Heard.” I have just begun reading it, and I am hopeful it will drive dialogue about the… Continue reading How About Pro-Teacher Teachers’ Unions?

Rhode Island is Getting Smarter (and More Like Mass)
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Rhode Island is Getting Smarter (and More Like Mass)

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Rhode Island is making a big change in how it assesses students that will bring us in line with Massachusetts in grades 3-8 and reduce testing time by 50 percent at the high school level. PARCC will no longer be the test we administer in Rhode Island so while the teaching standards will remain the… Continue reading Rhode Island is Getting Smarter (and More Like Mass)

Guest Post: Moving Parents Beyond the School Supply List to Real Understanding of School Accountability
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Guest Post: Moving Parents Beyond the School Supply List to Real Understanding of School Accountability

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This is a guest post written by my friend and colleague, Laura Waters.  If you’re a parent like me, at the start of each school year you eagerly learn all about the course content your child will study, the enrichment opportunities available, the field trips your child will take and the school supplies your child… Continue reading Guest Post: Moving Parents Beyond the School Supply List to Real Understanding of School Accountability