Tag: Jack Smith
State Roundup: Hogan’s new chief of staff got six-figure severance package from last post
The governor’s chief of staff left his previous job voluntarily but was still given a six-figure severance package from the state agency Maryland Environmental Service; school leaders continue to struggle with reopening plans,
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Many blame big corporation, Pearson, for school testing malaise
When a state commission meets for the first time on Tuesday to open a probe on the use of standardized testing in Maryland public schools, the elephant in the room could well be the testing vendor itself. The company, Pearson, is viewed by some as a multi-pronged education conglomerate whose standardized testing component is either a bane of classroom existence or the future of student assessments, depending on whom you speak with.
Read MoreRepealing Common Core appeals to scores of parents
Scores of parents from across Maryland told legislators this week that they want to junk the new Common Core curriculum standards altogether. Their reasons ranged from the political to the pedagogic. They objected to the new computerized tests being imposed and to the untested teaching methods. They invoked the Constitution, copyright law, corporate conspiracies and common sense.
Read MoreTeachers, school boards seek to drop standardized tests this year
Even those who support the new Common Core education standards, such as school boards and the state teachers union, said the standardized tests scheduled this spring should be dropped since they’re not based on the new curriculum. But the State Department of Education says the move will jeopardize $289 million in federal funds.
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