An article recently published at Edutopia (the George Lucas education Foundation) examines the history of assessment in schools, then continues to outline new ideas and implementations of assessment that are better designed to yield useful feedback.
“If we differentiate our instruction to meet the needs of all the learners, why aren’t we differentiating the test?” ~Stephen [...]

A policy before the Toronto District School Board suggests that students shouldn’t be given homework over the holidays. It suggests that students in primary school shouldn’t really be doing any homework, other than spending time with the family reading, cooking, and talking — as these activities help students improve literacy, numeracy and social skills. When [...]

Christopher Dawson, a physics teacher and contributer over at ZNet, has introduced twitter to his students and it’s not going so hot out of the gate. Half of the students get it, while half don’t — but the half that seem to ‘get’ it aren’t really using it effectively. With three twitter focused activities planned [...]