In case you missed the public comments about testing students with disabilities and students who are English language learners,they are now posted.

I was a member of the expert panel on testing students with disabilities on the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress). Those final reports have been available for a while. Here are comments about the testing for English language learners and the endorsement for that expert panel’s work. Let’s hope we get back to valid and reliable testing and consistency in the exclusion rates among states.

(Public Comments on NAEP testing)

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Missouri Elementary & Secondary Special Education: EducationNews.org – A Leading Global News Source – An Interview with Miriam Kurtzig Freedman, M.A., J.D.: On Fixing Special Education—12 Steps to Transform a Broken System…

Congratulations to Kara Miller, a teacher at Babson College in Wellesley, MA. She hit a cord… Her story–comparing her American college students with her immigrant students–to the detriment of the home grown variety–made it round the web. A huge reaction. Sometimes, when you tell the truth, people listen!

It became the most emailed Globe story, was discussed on Joanne Jacob’s blog, (lazy students), and led to Ms. Miller’s second column, describing the huge reaction to the first!

(lazy students)

(second story)

Read it and weep. Let’s hope it makes a difference in the new year.