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Data Are People, Too

On May 8, 2014   /   ACT, CWRA, data, data-informed decision-making, ERB, EXPLORE, HSSSE, ISEE, National Association of Independent Schools, NotYourFathersSchool, PLAN, PSAT, SSAT  

We keep hearing about data, and how data analysis is going to help education chart its own course toward salvation. I’ve been swimming in a sea of data lately, trying to make out some landmarks. When the accrediting process for independent schools added a kind of data […]

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Is the New SAT Worth Cheering About?

On March 14, 2014   /   ACT, college access, College Board, CWRA, David Coleman, founding documents, new SAT, NotYourFathersSchool, SAT writing test  

I want to believe that there are reasons to cheer on the new SAT as much as the next person, but I keep coming up with more questions than reasons to stand on my school roof and dance. I know that David Coleman, in all sincerity, sees […]

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Reflections on Standards, Grades, and Excuses

On December 14, 2013   /   Amada Torres, Andrew Niblock, Common Core, Council for Aid to Education, CWRA, grade inflation, grades, grading, Jonathan Martin, National Association of Independent Schools, New Tech Network, NotYourFathersSchool, St. Ann's School  

These are strange times for educational standards. First, there’s political polarization around the Common Core has everyone a swivet: Are they evil imposed from above, a federalist plot to undermine local control of schools? Or are they a Trojan horse for more testing and yet further reductions […]

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF TRADITIONAL LANDS

I here affirm that the offices from which I work are situated on lands that have a very long and continuing history as a locus of residence, livelihood, traditional expression, and exchange by the Massachusett, Wampanoag, Abenaki, Mohawk, Wabanaki, Hohokam, O’odam, Salt River Pima, and Maricopa people. The servers for this website are situated on Ute and Goshute land. We make this acknowledgment to remind ourselves, our educational partners, and our friends of our shared obligation to acknowledge and work toward righting the inequities and injustices that have alienated indigenous peoples from the full occupation and utilization of these spaces.