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Direct linkSuskind, Dorothy C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
The author, a 5th-grade teacher at an independent boys' school, gives a first-person account of how her constant assessments and requirement that her students be active participants in their own learning gainsays the need for high-stakes, standardized testing. She posits a "living assessment" that is intertwined, interactive and…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Active Learning, High Stakes Tests, Standardized Tests
Peer reviewedHiggins, Hillarie J. – Education 3-13, 2012
This article discusses the risks and possibilities of communicating and educating the child's emotional self in a formal classroom environment. Through designing and implementing an expressive arts curricular intervention in a Scottish primary school classroom, my research produces an example of how therapeutic notions focused upon health and…
Descriptors: Ethics, Classroom Environment, Educational Experience, Emotional Development
Barnes, Peter – Teaching Pre K-8, 2005
Social cliques start around fourth or fifth grade and get worse through middle school and beyond. The cool vs. the uncool. Nerds, jocks, popular kids and outsiders--students are categorized by their peers and excluded by those different from them. Students who are not part of the "cool" crowd feel isolated and lonely and are often subjected to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Social Isolation, Middle School Students, Early Adolescents
Schultz, Rosemary – Journal of School Public Relations, 2006
In December 2004, the "Amarillo Globe News" reported on a "Dallas Morning News" story that analyzed state-mandated test scores from across Texas (Benton & Hacker, 2004; Wilson, 2004). According the "Amarillo Globe News," "the Dallas Morning News" study implicated Sunrise Elementary School, in Amarillo,…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Mathematics Tests, Testing, Cheating
