Recommended Reading

Without a lot of added comment from me, here are a couple recent articles I found interesting.

This article from Education Week provides a number of examples of how students can begin to take ownership and responsibility in their schools, learning some citizenship skills in the process.

Anything a Child Can Do, a Teacher Shouldn't, by Joan Goodman.

As part of their excellent series, Bridging Differences, another article from Education Week talks about the dangers of relying too heavily on a single assessment tool.

The NCLB Paradox Enters the Twilight Zone