Suggested resources to assist in the implementation of Assessment for learning strategies, and to encourage an exploration of the thinking behind those strategies, are available as follows: Each video focuses on a particular aspect of Assessment for learning.

Learn effective strategies for differentiating your assessments and empowering every student in your class to succeed.

In this segment of 60 Minutes, commentator Andy Rooney debates whether or not the 'No Child Left Behind' law is leaving kids dumber.

Assessment for learning: peer feedback and student self-assessment explores some of the ways in which teachers can encourage self-assessment by students. As a precursor to self-assessment, it also examines the role that can be played by peer feedback in the classroom. Video clips of interviews with teachers and students examine self-assessment and peer feedback, while classroom footage and a number of tools can be used by teachers in the classroom...

"In many public schools, students are spending up to 28 percent of instructional time on testing and test prep. Starting this year, the introduction of the Common Core State Standards Initiative in 45 states will bring an unprecedented level of new, more difficult, and longer mandatory tests to nearly every classroom in the nation up to five times a year--forcing our national testing obsession to a crisis point. Taxpayers are spending extravagant...

What makes a school a "good" school? It's hard to say, and our current methods of measuring school quality are crude and often misleading. Parents who face the problem of where to matriculate their children are often left to surf websites that only offer one or two metrics by which to measure school accomplishment. Or they ask around among neighbors, work colleagues, and so on; the problem, of course, is that nearly everyone thinks the school their...

An urgent case for protecting public education, from one of America's best-known education experts In this landmark book, Diane Ravitch - former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national curriculum, examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once staunchly advocated. Drawing on over forty years of research and experience, Ravitch critiques today's most popular ideas for restructuring...