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The Inevitable Corruption of Indicators and Educators Through High-Stakes Testing

Nichols & Berliner

2005

A comparison of Campbell's Law and the use of high stakes standardized testing.

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Sophie is an artist, educator, lawyer, abolitionist, and anti-racist.

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Reimagining public middle schools in Western Michigan.

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Listening and learning from 400+ young people & educators.

Aaron Skjerseth

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Aaron is a writer with a degree in communications and journalism from North Dakota State University.

Play's Power

September 6, 2022

There is nothing more human than play.

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And the more we reinforce this narrative of learning loss, it invalidates everything you just said. Right? Everything that I know that I've learned doesn't matter. Because we're still looking at this year, people didn't measure up. We didn't learn the things we're supposed to learn so now you're behind. Right. So now you're behind, learning loss. And it's really invalidating.

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