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What Is College-Ready Writing?
Why are so many entering college students unprepared for college writing? Each year, most students...
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Preparing High Schoolers for College Writing Success—Pt 4 (A Sociocultural Model of Writing)
A Sociocultural Model A general disconnect between high school and college instruction is well...
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Preparing High Schoolers for College Writing Success—Pt 3 (Authentic Composition)
Authentic Composition First, students need practice with extended, source-based composition. As...
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Preparing High Schoolers for College Writing Success—Pt 2 (What is College-Ready Writing?)
College-Ready Writing There is no universal standard of college-ready writing, in part because...
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Preparing High Schoolers for College Writing Success—Pt 1 (Introduction)
Too many students find that the kind of writing they were asked to do in high school does not...
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Online Education Connecting Learners to Enterprising Teachers Worldwide
Universities began putting their courses online in the form of “Massively Open Online Courses”...
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The Future of Testing
Given how much the rest of education has changed since the middle of the 20th century, it’s...
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A Place for the Humanities in the Digital Age
In the 1950s, C. P. Snow famously argued that academia had separated into two cultures—the...
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At the Intersection of Creativity and Critical Thinking
Creativity and critical thinking sit atop most lists of skills crucial for success in the 21st...
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Integrating Cognitive, Social, and Personal Competencies
Educators have come increasingly to recognize that student success depends on more than content...
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The School Choice Paradox: Competition vs. Monopoly
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos recently released a list of proposed priorities for her...
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When Is School Choice a Bad Choice?
With Betsy DeVos as head of the Department of Education, it is a sure bet that school choice...
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It is a guiding principle in test development that stimulus materials and test questions should...
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Is the ACT a Valid Test? (Spoiler Alert: No.)
ACT, Inc. released the results of its 2016 National Curriculum Survey earlier this year. The...
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College As Culture Shock
The standards-based education reform movement, kicked off by A Nation At Risk in 1983, has been...
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Authentic Learning Requires Authentic Assessment
If project-based learning were to form the core of curricula in American schools, our problems...
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Function Follows Form
The problems with standardized tests lie less with the content they cover than with their very...
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Welcome to the Sausage Factory
I used to work for ACT, Inc., designing and developing student assessments. In my final years...
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