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Susan Stamburg interviewed contributors to an anthology disseminated overseas by U.S. Department of State. "The anthology, aimed at promoting American values abroad, will be distributed free at U.S. embassies worldwide. An anti-propaganda law makes it illegal to disseminate the works in the United States..." (Morning Edition, December 16, 2002)
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In this segment Michelle Norris explored "...arguments on both sides regarding the merits of these so-called 'high stakes' tests" with "Monty Neill, executive director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, and Paul Reville, a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education" (All Things Considered, December 10, 2002; retrieved March 5, 2012).
in list: Educational Measurement
Erard, Michael. (2012.January 14) Are we really monolingual? <i>The New York Times</i> [ Sunday Review, The Opinion Page]. Retrieved from: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/are-we-really-monolingual.html?
in list: Multi-lingualism
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Since 1980, the United States Census Bureau has asked: “Does this person speak a language other than English at home? What is this language? How well does this person speak English?” The bureau reports that as of 2009, about 20 percent of Americans speak a language other than English at home. This figure is often taken to indicate the number of bilingual speakers in the United States.
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Nonetheless, to better map American language abilities, the census should ask the same question that the European Commission asked in its survey in 2006: Can you have a conversation in a language besides your mother tongue?
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Pallas expounded on "rigor" in teacher evaluation.
in list: Educational Measurement
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The challenge is to state education policymakers across the country who have hitched their teacher-evaluation systems to measures that seek to isolate teachers’ contributions to their students’ learning: Develop clear and consistent guidelines for assigning teachers to rating categories that take into account the inherent uncertainty and errors in the value-added measures and their variants.
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If policymakers aren’t willing to take measurement error into account in a defensible way in teacher-evaluation systems, don’t talk to me about rigor—rigor is dead.
"The Obama Administration’s Plan for Teacher Education Reform and Improvement" (cover)
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Angela Pascopella reported on U.S. school district and national measures "to address surging ELL enrollment—and dropout rate[s]" (deck).
in list: Language Policy
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Between 1979 and 2008, the number of school-age children (ages 5-17) in the United States who spoke a language other than English at home increased from 3.8 to 10.9 million, or from 9 to 21 percent of the population in this age range, according to the latest figures from the National Center on Education Statistics (NCES).
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Perhaps one of the greatest examples of inequity lies in a joint investigation of the Department of Justice and the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights that revealed last October that Boston Public Schools had failed to properly identify and adequately serve thousands of ELLs since 2003 as required by the Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974 and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Introduces a second video in Tim Murphey's Japanese student voices series (RealVoice2), explains problems arising from rising tuition costs for students going overseas, and links to various related articles.
in list: Speaking, Global Education
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