At a time when Aetna — CVS and Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway, and dozens of other companies and company partnerships are feverishly rewriting the rules, this promises to be a fascinating conversation — and Mark has some strong,
provocative ideas for change.
Ray Pecheone, co-director of the Stanford Center
for Assessment, Learning, and Equity, calls the paper «a «must read»
for anyone interested in balancing and aligning formative and summative assessment and looking
for new
ideas and strategies that are practical, smart, and
provocative, and that can
change the face of accountability and student learning — putting teachers and students at the center of reform.»
There is growing scientific support
for one of the most
provocative and counterintuitive
ideas in climate
change research, which holds that rapid Arctic warming may be causing colder winters across large swaths of the Northern Hemisphere.