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Showing posts with label parents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parents. Show all posts
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Before The School Year Starts

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Maybe you have already bought back to school supplies. Maybe you are not a procrastinator. Maybe you are not squeezing the last few days of ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Guest Post: Teachers, Statistics, and Teacher Evaluation

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Have I mentioned that I love guest posts?  Priti Shah, an AAPS parent and a UM psychology professor read a version of this during public c...
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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Guest Post: A Parent Reviews Her Child's M-STEP Results, and Learns...

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A guest post by Naomi Zikmund-Fisher about the M-STEP results, and what they mean. Last week, we finally received my children’s scores ...
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Thursday, January 21, 2016

[When] Are We on the Same Team?

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I'll start with a story I heard from my kids several years ago. I wasn't actually there. Every year my parents run a "grandpar...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Ten Thoughts for the Last Two Weeks Before School Starts

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1. M-Live has an article, that says there may be a tentative agreement between the teachers and the Ann Arbor school district . I have no id...
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Sunday, July 5, 2015

Guest Post: This is How Our Public Schools Die

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Occasionally someone volunteers to write a guest post! I think this post, by Steve Norton, the Executive Director of Michigan Parents for Sc...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Please Take the M-STEP Student and Parent Surveys

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The Michigan Department of Education has put out parent and student surveys on the M-Step. I understand (at least on the parent survey) ther...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Ann Arbor’s Move to Punish Opting Out: Even For This Test-Taking Family, It’s Bad Policy

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A guest post by Naomi Zikmund-Fisher If you look at the sidebar on the right of this blog, it asks that we assume that everyone wants the...
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Monday, June 1, 2015

There's a New Group in Arbor Town; Parents and Teachers are Riled Up!

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There is SO much going on these days. And while I was busy with my life, the school world spun madly on...In the last few weeks, the school ...
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