This could be any gym in any high school at this time of year: prepared for final exams with tables in a row – inspiring the fear of cheating, whispering, failing. Over the past 30 years, we have witnessed and experienced such incredible change to how we access information and communicate with each other: In…
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“National Canine Latin Barking assessments” – Canadian version
I read Michael Doyle’s posts about the frustrations of the whole standardized hoop-jumping, I mean testing, situation with an odd sense of voyeurism. We just don’t have that kind of thing here…dare I say yet? In Ontario they do, maybe in other places in Canada, too. But Quebec is so involved in being unique that…
Is testing what is needed to get teachers to work harder?: Checking out Ontario’s Progress Report on Education
So…I received an interesting email message yesterday from the Ontario Premier’s office: Hello, My name is Grahame Rivers. I’m the social media coordinator in the Ontario Premier’s Office. I wanted to let you know that Ontario has released it’s progress report on education. Based on the family focus of your blog, I thought this might…