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Give real grades in elementary school!
What happened to ‘A’ for “Excellent!” and ‘F’ for “You don’t know this and you need to study it again”? These days, elementary school report cards are anything but elementary. I understand that there are philosophical reasons for not wanting to give elementary students the “old school” grades. I once attended an equity meeting where
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Some thoughts on the teacher shortage in California…
How many undergraduate teacher training programs exist in California? California requires a bachelor’s degree before the teacher credentialing program, then even more credentialing classes to “clear” the credential. Who has the money, energy, and time for that? Can’t undergrads just take linguistics, literature, math, history, etc. courses along with courses such as “how to teach
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The COVID Slide? Nah Fam…
Let’s Do Our ABCs: ELA in California 2018-2019 Sources: https://caaspp-elpac.cde.ca.gov/caaspp/DashViewReportSB?ps=true&lstTestYear=2021&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstSubGroup=1&lstSchoolType=A&lstGrade=13&lstCounty=00&lstDistrict=00000&lstSchool=0000000 California 2018-2019 ELA, All Students CA 2018-2019 ELA, Blacks, African Americans CA 2018-2019, ELA, Hispanic, Latino Let’s Do Our 123s: Math in California 2018-2019 Sources: https://caaspp-elpac.cde.ca.gov/caaspp/DashViewReportSB?ps=true&lstTestYear=2021&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstSubGroup=1&lstSchoolType=A&lstGrade=13&lstCounty=00&lstDistrict=00000&lstSchool=0000000 California 2018-2019 ELA, All Students CA 2018-2019 ELA, Blacks, African Americans CA 2018-2019, ELA, Hispanic, Latino It was bad
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