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Sexy Data Analysis: Google Motion Charts

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And My Job Quality is Based on These Tests?! (Updated)

So clearly we've all been thinking a lot about the necessity of test scores in making high stakes decisions. I mean, test scores seem to be used in everything these days: teacher evaluations, a student's college or career readiness, ...
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2009
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Studies Find There’s No Such Thing as Learning Styles – As Teachers, Should We Care?

According to Psychcentral.com, "Learning Styles are being re-evaluated" and negated. This theory, according to a recently published journal article claims that there is really no research out there to prove that students learn differently from one another. Shrug. Cue ...
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Swine Flu and Test Scores

Here's yet another reason why test scores can't be the only way to gage teaching quality. A colleague of mine, a fifth grade teacher, at the UCI Writing Project got a call last night from her automated phone tree saying ...

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