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  • High-Stakes Game of Legislative Testing Chicken Nears Point of No Return0

    • April 30, 2015

    There’s nothing quite like the last-minute drama of a Colorado legislative session to fire up the creative juices. Last year at this time, I imagined the crazy showdown over transparency in the Student Success Act as an old gangster film. This time around, the big looming education issue is what to do about testing. No […]

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  • Whichever Way You Look, Colorado Seems to be Stuck in a Testing Rut0

    • April 14, 2015

    I came across a story in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times under the headline: “Majority of California’s Latino voters highly value school testing.” Given the state of affairs in Colorado, how could something like that escape my attention? A majority of Latino voters, 55%, said mandatory exams improve public education in the state by gauging student […]

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  • Tick, Tock: Accountability Clock Leading Some CO School Districts to Watershed0

    • April 9, 2015

    Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Not many clocks today actually make that noise anymore. But even with the digital timepieces we’re more accustomed to now (and are pretty much all little people like me have known), if you set the alarm you know that it’s bound to go off at some point. Whether it’s a soothing […]

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  • Testing Issue Isn’t as Easy as “1, 2, 3,” But You’ve Got to Start Somewhere0

    • January 30, 2015

    Have you ever watched a big person prepare to do some public speaking behind a microphone? Or maybe you’ve done it yourself. Almost always, when someone asks if the microphone is working, the person leans into the device and says something like, “Testing, testing… 123, testing.” Well, I’m worried that little rote phrase may take […]

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  • Little Eddie’s Transparency Soap Box0

    • January 13, 2015

    I love flashlights. I can remember many nights spent reading under my Batman sheets with a flashlight well past the time I should have been asleep. And just last week, I used a flashlight to hunt down the final Lego block I needed to finish my replica Millennium Falcon. It had fallen under the bed. […]

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  • Sticky Testing Issue Knot: Where’s the Education Policy Velcro?0

    • December 18, 2014

    I may be a precocious and talented young edublogger, but tying shoelaces still gives me fits. My mom insists on double-knotting the laces. Occasionally, in my dreams, I am stifled and frustrated by a tight pair of shoes that I can’t remove because they have been tied snugly so many times with knots that could […]

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