by DianneSalerni | Apr 4, 2010 | PSSA, testing, We Hear the Dead
The miserable weather has broken here in Pennsylvania, and April made a grand entrance with some truly gorgeous days! I also received the first professional review for We Hear the Dead on April 1, and it was no joke. Kirkus—the big, bad, difficult-to-please giant of...
by DianneSalerni | Mar 10, 2010 | education, testing
Yes, Homer Simpson is an exemplary model of doing something really stupid and realizing his mistake only when it’s too late to fix it. I hope that’s what Diane Ravitch is feeling these days – not that it will do any good for the rest of us.Ravitch served in President...
by DianneSalerni | Feb 13, 2010 | education, PSSA, reading, testing
Reading in today’s society tends to be a social activity. People share books, recommend them, discuss them, blog about them, and list them on virtual library sites. However, across the nation, NCLB requires states to test reading in isolation. Students must make sense...
