As I combed RSS feeds this morning, I was struck immediately by a prevailing theme that will certainly resonate with CW readers: testing. As we continually discuss on this blog, the use of high-stakes test is not so cut and...
[caption id="attachment_1055" align="alignleft" width="183" caption="Image courtesy of suicidepreventionlifeline.org"][/caption] A report in The Chicago Tribune this past Friday posited some interesting ideas regarding the presence of social networking websites such as Facebook in suicide prevention among teens. The article, “Psychologists, Educators...
I wanted to share a few short news briefs with you all this morning that touch on some important topics here at CW before moving on to another big scandal in the education world that tangentially affects us all. In...
[caption id="attachment_1028" align="alignleft" width="135" caption="Photo courtesy of digitalart"][/caption] High-stakes testing on the national level was ushered in with much fanfare under the Presidential Administration of George W. Bush in the early 2000’s. Much of the legislation known as No Child...
[caption id="attachment_1017" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="Image courtesy of photostock"][/caption] A report from the January edition of Current Biology titled, “Infant Neural Sensitivity to Dynamic Eye Gaze Is Associated with Later Emerging Autism” has shed some light on heretofore unknown signs of...
I have two great articles for you all this morning with a common theme: assessment. As we all know, assessment is a loaded term in education whether you teach pre-k, high school or beyond, but it applies to more than...
[caption id="attachment_1005" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image courtesy of digitalart"][/caption] On the heels of last week’s State of the Union Address by President Barack Obama, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is prepared to ask his state legislature to raise the dropout rate from...
As we head into the weekend, I wanted to share a few interesting articles that focus on numbers. The first, from the New America Foundation’s Jennifer Cohen talks about how 2010 Census data has shown a disturbingly large increase in...
[caption id="attachment_990" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="Image courtesy of Federico Stevanin"][/caption] Ohio residents with special needs ages 3 to 21 are celebrating this week. Not only is it School Choice week in that state and 24 others across the country. To celebrate,...
[caption id="attachment_983" align="alignleft" width="190" caption="Image courtesy of Salvatore Vuono"][/caption] If you have an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and a little kid, the chorus of “can I play?” is probably a familiar one to you already. As the New Media...
Unless you’ve been cut off from the news for the past couple of days you have likely heard the big news about the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) and its new definition of Autism...
[caption id="attachment_971" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="Image courtesy of phaewilk"][/caption] The online journal Developmental Psychology will publish a study this week which has been 30 years in the making. Developmental researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conducted an...
