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Test scores under investigation at Burbank school
A McKinley Elementary teacher has been placed on administrative leave after a third-grade student reported that the teacher helped a class answer questions on state standardized tests this week. Burbank Unified Supt. Jan Britz, who made the announcement...Tags: Teachers, Students, Teaching and Learning, School Examinations
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Atlanta test scores: Cheating is cheating
If a student cheats on an important test, such as a midterm, he is punished, and rightly so. His teacher doesn't merely brush aside the offense and blame it on all the stressful and unnecessary high-stakes tests that today's unfortunate students are...
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Suspending some standardized tests could save state $15 million
L.A. NOWA plan to suspend California’s standardized testing for certain grades while new computerized exams are developed could save $15 million, the state’s top education official said Wednesday. State Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson... -
Student test scores can identify effective teachers, new study says
L.A. NOWStudent standardized test scores can accurately identify effective teachers, along with other performance measures such as classroom observations and pupil surveys, according to a major national study released Tuesday. The study of 3,000 teachers in seven... -
Teacher evaluation bill might not pass muster with feds, official says
L.A. NOWA teacher evaluations bill under consideration by the state Legislature won't necessarily bring extra federal dollars to California, the top U.S. education official said. The bill has been debated in the Assembly and is expected to go to the state... -
Schools caught cheating on standardized tests [Google+ hangout]
L.A. NOWTimes education reporter Howard Blume will join city editor Shelby Grad at 1:30 p.m. for a Google+ hangout about schools the state stripped of their Academic Performance Index ratings for cheating on standardized tests. Some teachers may have thought... -
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When layoffs come to L.A. schools, performance doesn't count
John H. Liechty Middle School opened in 2007 in Los Angeles' impoverished Westlake neighborhood with a seasoned principal, dozens of energetic young teachers and a mission to "reinvent education" in the nation's second-largest school district.
The...Tags: Science, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Lawyers, Career and Workplace, Teaching and Learning
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L.A.'s leaders in learning
Five families from across the San Fernando Valley set up camp for three nights by the front door of Wilbur Avenue Elementary School in 2009, intent on getting a spot for their children in one of the best-regarded schools in Los Angeles. Others hired...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Family, Real Estate Agents, Los Angeles Unified School District, Examinations
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Who's teaching L.A.'s kids?
The fifth-graders at Broadous Elementary School come from the same world — the poorest corner of the San Fernando Valley, a Pacoima neighborhood framed by two freeways where some have lost friends to the stray bullets of rival gangs.
Many are the...Tags: Music, Teachers, Entertainment, Antonio Villaraigosa, Human Accomplishments
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Fedde Academy in Hawaiian Gardens enacts ambitious change
Like almost every teacher at this Hawaiian Gardens middle school, science instructor John Laird posts his students' standardized test results in the back of his classroom.
But right next to them, Laird also put up his own evaluation. "This is my report...Tags: Human Interest, Career and Workplace, ABC (tv network), Teaching and Learning, Teachers Unions
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