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Is there a happy medium for standardized testing?

Is there a happy medium for standardized testing?Are they necessary?A question I am always hearing is whether standardized tests are necessary.I keep wondering whether it was necessary for my kid's physician to pass her MCATs. I mean, afterall, if the AYP testing proves so little, what does her MCAT...

Tags: standardized testing, happy medium

Discussion threads 2008-05-21

Opposition building to standardized tests

Opposition building to standardized testsAnother example of teachers unions ruining educationPeople can complain all they want about standardized testing, but it's the only way to measure any kind of progress. This argument that standardized testing doesn't measure intelligence is irrelevant.While A kid doing well doing well on a standardized...

Tags: school performance, standardized testing, education, standardized test

Discussion threads 2006-10-25

Additional Resources

Some important truths about pen-testing

Guest editorial by Alberto Soliño Penetration testing is a highly scientific, metrics-driven approach to IT security that has been in practice since almost the dawn of the modern computing era when programmers first began conducting organized tests, or “hacks” of their own, or others’ technologies to test...

Tags: Process, Security, Penetration Testing, IT Security, Information Technology, Organization, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-20

Massachusetts Educational Data Warehouse provides a host of tools

Massachusetts is not the first state to create a data warehouse for educational data, but it is early to the field with a really robust set of tools for analyzing a variety of student information. For those of you new to data analysis (probably not many of you, but...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Data, Tool, Massachusetts Educational Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Another view on Red Hat's Virtualization Portfolio

Red Hat just trumpeted that its Virtualization Portfolio was just about cooked and ready to serve. While that announcement see Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Beta Draws Industry Interest did gather some industry comment, including that made by my colleage Paula Rooney (see Red Hat's KVM-based virtualization platform moves into beta...

Tags: Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., Open Source, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-22

ARRA grants will have a focus on collaboration, meaningful PD

I went to a seminar today on the technology-related No Child Left Behind and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ARRA grants that were being administered by Massachusetts over the next two years. Although much of the seminar focused on details and procedures specific to the Commonwealth, a few themes...

Tags: Collaboration, Professional Development, Grant, Teacher, PD, Details, Training And Certification, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-09

Manufacturer pushes pseudo-Energy Star rating for Ethernet gear

Attention network administrators: Microsemi is rallying behind what it's calling a set of standardized efficiency ratings for Power over Ethernet PoE equipment. The Microsemi Green Power over Ethernet Certification program applies a series of tests to PoE equipment. The company is lobbying to have the certification used...

Tags: Ethernet, Equipment, Power Over Ethernet, Microsemi Green Power Over Ethernet Certification Program, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-10

Summer reading...the data don't lie

We collect a lot of data on our students. State standardized tests, DIBELS, and RTI feedback from Lexia and Symphony software in particular all provide us with the opportunity to modify instruction based on specific student needs. That's a good thing. Obviously, the data collection process...

Tags: Kid, Transportation, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-19

Kaplan GRE Exam Vocabulary Flashcards for OS 4.2.1 thru 4.6 1.0.3 (Mobile)

Over 500 flashcards covering need-to-know GRE vocabulary words. Kaplan's GRE Exam Vocabulary is designed to help you to quickly learn the words that will help you succeed on the verbal section of the GRE. With this application you can study and test your knowledge on the go. Kaplan's GRE Exam...

Tags: Mobile, Operating System, gWhiz LLC, Kaplan, Flashcards Mode, Kaplan Publishing, Professional Development, Training And Certification, Career

Software downloads 2009-04-01

Kaplan GRE Exam Vocabulary Flashcards for OS 4.7 Storm (Mobile)

Over 500 flashcards covering need-to-know GRE vocabulary words. Kaplan's GRE Exam Vocabulary is designed to help you to quickly learn the words that will help you succeed on the verbal section of the GRE. With this application you can study and test your knowledge on the go. Kaplan's GRE Exam...

Tags: Mobile, Operating System, gWhiz LLC, Kaplan, Flashcards Mode, Kaplan Publishing, Professional Development, Training And Certification, Career

Software downloads 2009-04-01

HP Workstations Power Modeling for Clean, Energy-Saving Technologies

In an era of unpredictable energy prices and rising eco-awareness, finding ways to make engines more efficient and cleaner is a goal everyone can applaud. That's the focus of Colorado State University's Engines and Energy Conversion Lab EECL, where researchers run enormously complex computer models to investigate new ideas. EECL...

Tags: Colorado State University, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Workstation, Modeling, Workstations, Research & Development, Business Operations

Case studies 2009-03-01

Power You Didn't Know You Had: Using PSAX to Create Self-Generating Web Libraries With SAS

Just as the Ajax development style revolutionized the Web with Web 2.0, SAS has innate strengths that make it ideal for building drill-down libraries of Web information. Using the "PSAX" development style - pre-synchronous SAS and XML - one can push a Web-based information channel out to the Web, often...

Tags: Web, SAS Institute, PSAX, Channel Management, Marketing

White papers 2009-02-27

Building an Intel Core i7 system just got cheaper

Building an Intel Core i7 system just got cheaperI've been building PCs for 20 yearsand the problem I see is that, no matter how great the reviews MSI gets, in the field, their products are problematic. I can speak as someone who has built (and had to replace, when I...

Tags: Corporate governance, MSI, Intel Core Microarchitecture, board

Discussion threads 2009-02-03

Technology and image in schools

A high school in a neighboring district was just named one of a couple dozen schools in the state to make it on the US News and World Report list of top high schools. This irritates me, not because our high school didn't make it, but because of in...

Tags: School, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-01-02

Pathfinder Designs Test Tracking Software for a Country's Standardized Testing Program

In an Arabic Gulf State, Pathfinder and its client, a large Research and Data Analysis firm, are helping transform the educational system. Part of the vision for the new system was the implementation of a standardized testing program administered over a four-week period at several hundred schools. To manage the...

Tags: Software, User Interface, Speaker, Pathfinder Development, Supply Chain, Scanners, Business Operations, Hardware, Peripherals

Case studies 2009-01-01

So about these long breaks

My district officially closed for the week, giving all students a three-week holiday two weeks for the winter holiday and another six days due to our ice storm. Depending upon what the state forgives of these "snow days" since we were under a state of emergency, school could be...

Tags: Break, Leadership, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-12-18

Globalization Company Standardizes, Cuts Costs, Enhances Security With Virtualization

Lionbridge Technologies provides globalization, development, and testing services for enterprise applications and IT systems. A public company with U.S.$452 million in revenue, it handles complex translation, testing, and development projects that are shared among multiple sites. Lionbridge needed to centralize and streamline its process and create a more flexible, cost-effective,...

Tags: Lionbridge, Security, Virtualization, Environment, Microsoft Corp., Globalization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Strategy, Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Case studies 2008-12-01

Yes, we can go paperless...so what's the cost/benefit?

Regular readers know that not only am I something of a tree-hugger, but I've recently become convinced that social media (not MySpace and Facebook, but the wide variety of Web 2.0, collaboration, and communication tools available to us on the Web) can have a very important place in education. ...

Tags: School, Student, Teacher, Computer, Productivity, Web 2.0, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-06

Any chance our student data could be consistent?

Here in the States, most of us are now teaching to some sort of standardized test. The original goal of these tests was to provide data and feedback to increase student achievement nationwide. Unfortunately, now, the tests tend to define our curricula and, more often than not, punish...

Tags: Data, Productivity, Performance Management, Data Mining, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-15

California algebra rule highlights basic math difficulties

California algebra rule highlights basic math difficultiesYou are wrong.I teach Algebra, Geography, and 1 computer maintenance class. I have 65 Algebra students a day, and my budget for that is a share of the $500 the math department is alloted, so I get about $85. My Geography numbers...

Tags: algebra

Discussion threads 2008-09-23