{"title":"The right test for the wrong reason","authors":"W. Popham","doi":"10.1177/0031721714547862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0031721714547862","url":null,"abstract":"The tests we use to evaluate student achievement may well be sound measures of what students know, but they are faulty indicators at best of how well they have been taught. A remedy to this this situation of judging teachers by the performance of their students on high-stakes tests may be in hand already. We should look to the methods successfully used to eliminate testing bias when it was first discovered as pertaining to gender and racial groups.","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"22 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120916758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HIGHLIGHTED & UNDERLINED","authors":"J. Richardson","doi":"10.1177/0031721714547855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0031721714547855","url":null,"abstract":"OECD’s latest TALIS survey finds most teachers around the world enjoy their job despite feeling unsupported and unrecognized in schools and undervalued by society at large. Far fewer New York City teachers were granted tenure following changes in New York City’s tenure policy in 2009, says a new study. Another study finds that poor academic performance in middle school heavily disadvantages students who aspire to get a college degree.","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124775798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Try it again, Uncle Sam","authors":"William J. Bushaw, Valerie J. Calderon","doi":"10.1177/0031721714547856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0031721714547856","url":null,"abstract":"The 46th Annual PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools reveals that Americans say they know a lot more this year about the Common Core State Standards than they indicated a year ago, and they like it a lot less. Americans also say local school boards should have the greatest influence in deciding what is taught in the public schools. Americans support public charter schools, particularly when they’re described as schools that can operate independently and free of regulations. Americans don’t believe standardized tests help teachers know what to teach. Americans continue to assign higher grades to their local schools but far lower grades to the nation’s schools in general. Americans gave the President significantly lower grades on his performance in support of public schools.","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134108061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intellectual nutrition for the snack food junkie","authors":"D. L. Miller","doi":"10.1177/0031721714547864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0031721714547864","url":null,"abstract":"When writing projects have an authentic reader beyond the classroom teacher, students can see a direct connection between their lives and their literacy development. That connection is key to learning engagement and motivation. Using the inquiry model to teach technical writing is also important since students’ lives outside school are filled with demands for critical thinking and knowledge application.","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"415 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123569308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Editor’s Note","authors":"Joan Richardson","doi":"10.1177/0031721714547853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0031721714547853","url":null,"abstract":"The idea of a one-year residency for newly minted teachers is a good one that we should try to adopt broadly. Sending a teacher into a classroom after just a few weeks of full-time student teaching is tantamount to supporting malpractice. There is a link between the quality of teaching and the quality of student learning, and so we must closely examine all of our practices to ensure that we are doing everything we can to ensure a high quality of teaching in every classroom.","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129280773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imperiled Teacher Pensions","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/003172171409500802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/003172171409500802","url":null,"abstract":"Almost half of all U.S. public teachers won't qualify for a minimal pension benefit","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129307849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High School Proms are a Fertile Source of Legal Action","authors":"Edwin C. Darden","doi":"10.1177/003172171409500816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/003172171409500816","url":null,"abstract":"It's prom season again. What are your school and district doing to sidestep those easily avoidable legal troubles that can crop up at the big dance?","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125813743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personalized Learning for Every Student Every Day","authors":"S. Childress, Scott Benson","doi":"10.1177/003172171409500808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/003172171409500808","url":null,"abstract":"The best hope for accelerating student achievement is by using a range of pedagogical and technological innovations that deliver personalized learning to each student.","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132817083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring up","authors":"H. Hart, Kaleen Healey, Susan E. Sporte","doi":"10.1177/003172171409500814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/003172171409500814","url":null,"abstract":"Moving teacher evaluation systems from measuring teachers' performance to improving their practice requires much greater attention to communication and support.","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129827928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EMERGE-ing from the Shadows","authors":"Terry Grier","doi":"10.1177/003172171409500812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/003172171409500812","url":null,"abstract":"Houston tackles the challenge of getting more high-achieving, low-income students to attend Ivy League and Tier One universities.","PeriodicalId":361927,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan Magazine","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126844803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}