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Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: How Assessment and Data are Used to Stigmatize Children as Failing

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Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: How Assessment and Data are Used to Stigmatize Children as Failing Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: How Assessment and Data are Used to Stigmatize Children as Failing School districts continue to purchase high-cost commercialized tests that depersonalize teaching, stigmatize children and schools as failing, and build public distrust. Assessment should inform educators and parents about where chil…

The Best Education Blog 817 2025-01-08

Situation assessment

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Situation assessment So I have been feeling a little down on my situation recently and I was wanting to get some perspective on how things are looking. I will give a quick run down. I am 26. The positives are I bought a 280k house in FL at 3.5%, make ~80k/yr as an engineer, have 50k in 401k. The negatives are my actual cash savings are less than 1k and I have about …

Reddit Personal Finance 908 2024-03-22

Latest US climate assessment shows the extreme toll taken by climate change

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Latest US climate assessment shows the extreme toll taken by climate change Homes and businesses in Lahaina, Maui, are in ruins on August 16th, 2023, after a devastating wildfire swept through town. | Photo by Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesClimate disasters are costing the US billions of dollars a year, and the damage isn’t spread out evenly, according to a new national climate assessment. The ass…

The Verge 442 2024-03-08

Ed in the Apple: The Long Road: Can “Performance Tasks,” or, “Projects” Replace Standard Testing as Assessment and Accountability Metrics?

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Ed in the Apple: The Long Road: Can “Performance Tasks,” or, “Projects” Replace Standard Testing as Assessment and Accountability Metrics? Ed in the Apple: The Long Road: Can “Performance Tasks,” or, “Projects” Replace Standard Testing as Assessment and Accountability Metrics? ….any powers that are not specifically given to the federal government, nor withheld from the states, are reserved to those respective states, or to the people at large. Educa…

The Best Education Blog 872 2024-01-03

What do I do if I can’t afford a special assessment?

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What do I do if I can’t afford a special assessment? I live in a condo complex, and many of the units have to be completely gutted due to flooding. My association has levied a special assessment because of this. But it is roughly $1,000/month for the next 10 years. This would be on top of the HOA fees we already pay for maintenance and upkeep. To be blunt, I can’t afford that. Nether can many othe…

Reddit Personal Finance 192 2023-09-28