Educational Links 10/25/15

President Obama and Arne Duncan

Obama encouraging limits on standardized tests, less 'obsessing' about testing

http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015/10/24/obama-cap-class-time-devoted-to-standardized-student-tests 

Obama administration announces new testing guidelines

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/24/politics/barack-obama-teachers-testing/ 

Teaching Teachers To Teach: It's Not So Elementary

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/10/24/437555944/teaching-teachers-to-teach-its-not-so-elementary?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=education 

Progressive Education Has a Race Problem (Part I) 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2015/10/progressive-education-has-race-problem.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29 

Designing, Building and Iterating Alongside Engineering Professionals

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/10/23/designing-building-and-iterating-alongside-engineering-professionals/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29 

Progress Monitoring of Kids with LD 

http://www.nesca-news.com/2015/10/progress-monitoring-of-kids-with-ld.html 

10 districts that have seen big blended learning success

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2015/10/22/districts-blended-learning-824/ 

Blended Learning

http://www.edutopia.org/blogs/tag/blended-learning