A good article by Bailey on how to leverage MCAS material to supplement classroom or home instruction. Teachers and tutors can leverage any state standardized test material, or even National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) material. After each assessment, NAEP releases dozens of sample questions to the public—more than 2,000 questions are currently available to [...]
An open letter to the Massachusetts Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education: Mitchell D. Chester, Ed.D. Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Dear Commissioner Chester, I work with a number of schools helping them review MCAS data and results. Thank you for shortening the turnaround time for MCAS results for schools, and for shortening the test [...]
How Data analysis is helping raise performance – story covers both good and the bad Data-Driven Schools See Rising Scores – WSJ.com Educational data is in abundance – but not in very useful state. Education Week: Data, Data Everywhere, But Not a Drop to Use Impact of providing detailed and real time access to student [...]
Inspiring presentation and definition on “Definition of Success” by Richard St. John, reminding us that success is not a one-way street, but a constant journey. He uses the story of his business’ rise and fall to illustrate a valuable lesson — when we stop trying, we fail. If you get a chance check it out [...]
NYtimes posted a story on new charter school. It’s inspiring to see that Mr. Zeke M. Vanderhoek founder of a test preparation company Manhattan GMAT is assembling a dream team of teachers to kick start a charter school. I agree with the approach that excellent and passionate teachers / tutors are the key ingredients to [...]
For people who do not believe that private tutoring can help increase SAT scores, this article about South Korean tutoring industry is intense. A recent study by NACAC got coverage in WSJ that private tutoring does not help much in raising SAT scores. At least, that’s how the finding of the report is being projected. [...]
