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Its unlikely to be valid in terms of what its trying to do. I do believe there is ability. Parents who come into kindergarten, when you have a child they always say children will develop at their own weight and age. Whats important is that theyre thriving and happy and then all the sudden that rhetoric comes to a halt and if you dont learn to read by third grade youre doomed forever and wont ever go to college. I hope you buy the book and give it to all the parents you work with. I was reading about this thing called a racial button law where the children are in control of their own content be...

Garfield high school in seattle takes a critical look at standardized testing. This is about an hour, 20 minutes. [applause] thank you. Welcome everybody for braving the elements in making it up here. My name is brian jones. Im an educator and activist in new york city and as jason said im going to moderate our event to just say a few words about the event and we will kick about. I will introduce our panel of some of them kick it off and we will have discussion after that. We are here, no doubt you understand for a very important reason. A, to mourn the decision, the fateful decision to not ru...

Sorts of challenges within the test. With the performancebased assessment you cant imagine that happening in being mandated for a couple a couple weeks a year unless you had some Crazy Society that was trying to produce a a nation of stat spies. If you integrate teaching and learning and the teachers are engaged in their integrating their own selfworth flexion, i flexion, i think thats really important. I was really struck by the student being prompt by their achievement and how they got where they were. That was a really huge part of it. You can make students do that and that can be part of t...

Students achieve more. What is the impact of having this comprehensive dossier of information on the student that the readout of the balances this kid is a potential drop out. That is the kind of question where the law is so far away from what we are getting at and even in Public Opinion theres a lot of division about words that helpful when would we like our kids to be able to tear up their record when they graduate high school and what about nonpersonally identifiable as we talk about changing policies to reduce dropping out in general. So its very complex and totally fascinating and a littl...

Lets begin this hour with news on beats. Im joined by eric chemi. Jon erlichman from los angeles. And cory johnson from severn cisco. Jon erlichman, i went to begin with you. Give us the details of this deal. There is 3 billion for the beats business, still relatively a young business. In terms of the reasoning that apple is giving for this deal, there are a few factors. We talk a lot about Technology Companies doing acquisitions for talent. In this case, they are bringing very talented Music Industry players on board. If you think about what beats has been trying to do in its evolution, going...