By Theodore Willson Executive Director, National Institute for Student-Centered EducationAt long last, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is taking a much needed step back to examine whether the state’s appetite for standardized testing is proving detrimental to teachers and students.Matthew Malone, the state’s education commissioner, thinks it’s time to review how testing is being handled in school districts around the state. He was quoted as saying in a recent Boston Globe article, … [Read more...]
NISCE to Expand Focus and Outreach
….New initiatives result of feedback at two-day INSPIRE 2014 conference… WINCHESTER, MA – November 4, 2014 -- The National Institute for Student-Centered Education (NISCE) today announced that, based on feedback from its INSPIRE 2014 conference, it will expand and enhance its mission-driven programs with a clearer emphasis on practical applications and approaches to student-centered education, and enhancing its focus and strategies to respond to educators’ concerns about the efficacy and … [Read more...]
Standards, Not Standardization
The following post was contributed by Diana Laufenberg, and originally posted on Living the Dream, in December 2013. Diana is one of the Keynote speakers at INSPIRE 2014: Engaging Today's Students. I said this phrase, standards not standardization, in a conversation with the ever thoughtful, Jose Vilson… and he has brought it up with me a few times … which makes me think that I need to write through my thoughts on this and will then be leading a conversation on this same topic … [Read more...]
