Crunching Numbers

Your favorite podcast about teaching and learning is back this week with an episode that's all about data! Chelsea talks about the requirements of No Child Left Behind, including standardized testing for grades 3-8. Katie shares about some of her favorite and most useful data, and the ways in which it informs planning lessons. Chelsea accidentally asks Katie a question that is required on every formal evaluation of teachers in the state of Ohio, and Katie shares her love of wine windows and Stanley Tucci.

Education Week - "No Child Left Behind: An Overview" by Alyson Klein

ODE - Ohio's State Tests in English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies

NCES - The Condition of Education

Los Angeles Times - "Why do U.S. schoolchildren underperform academically compared with students in other countries?" by The Times Editorial Board

The Atlantic - "American Schools vs. the World: Expensive, Unequal, Bad at Math" by Julia Ryan