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Assessment for learning: putting it all together brings all elements of formative assessment into one practical classroom-oriented series for both primary and secondary teachers. The playlist contains video clips of interviews of teachers and students and classroom footage highlighting all aspects of Assessment for Learning including oral feedback, strategic questioning, self-assessment, peer feedback and annotated examples of written feedback. There...

Assessment for learning: effective feedback explores elements of effective feedback, including teacher feedback to students about their work. It contains video footage of primary and secondary teachers: talking about feedback in general providing oral feedback to their students. It also contains interviews with students about the kind of feedback that they find helpful, and samples of student work accompanied by examples of written teacher feedback....

Explores the issues surrounding standardized testing by placing opinions from a wide range of sources in a pro/con format. Features articles that express various perspectives on this topic.

Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools.

Joseph P. Farrell, well known for his widely-discussed investigations on contemporary banks and ruling structures, co-writes this fascinating book regarding contemporary schooling with long-time New York state instructor Gary Lawrence. Both authors maintain that the future of American education stands in a tradition of social engineering, data mining, pseudo-psychology, and dumbing down classroom strategies. Says Farrell, "It it is our contention...

"In many public schools, students are spending up to 28 percent of instructional time on testing and test prep. Starting this year, the introduction of the Common Core State Standards Initiative in 45 states will bring an unprecedented level of new, more difficult, and longer mandatory tests to nearly every classroom in the nation up to five times a year--forcing our national testing obsession to a crisis point. Taxpayers are spending extravagant...