Failure Fairness Testing 
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2019
Dougherty convened the first Maker Faire in 2006 in San Mateo, Calif., The faire became a way to foster a sense of community and to give people a place to celebrate and share what they made. Like a sports season or a date to perform a play, Maker Faires became a rallying moment for students. So Maker Faires bloomed.
eSchool News
JANUARY 29, 2019
There is a fair amount of research into the impact of classroom design on student learning. Test scores, homework completion, and grades have soared and parents who had never visited their student’s classroom now volunteer regularly. Social-emotional learning is a huge part of our learning process.
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eSchool News
JANUARY 30, 2019
The middle of the year is cold, the holidays are over, and we are looking at the high-pressure demands of preparing students for standardized testing. If it didn’t work, we would bury it in the worst failures of the Mike Gaskell Graveyard. This can feel overwhelming and make the most positive teacher feel less enthusiastic.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
He chalks that up to the fact that many professors using the model don’t test whether students are actually learning the material presented in lecture videos, and so some students who skip the videos or watch them on double-speed arrive in class unprepared for the activities. I didn’t think that was fair to people practicing flipped learning.”
Edsurge
OCTOBER 1, 2016
When schools and technology providers attempt to work together without understanding each other, the result can be a costly failure. They can’t give you their software for free unless you are testing it out for them. If you’re taking the risk as an early adopter and testing new software, you shouldn’t have to buy it first.
Edsurge
APRIL 5, 2018
At my suburban school in South Carolina, the term is used liberally to describe students who may fail the End of Course Tests, students who might not get promoted to the next grade level and those at risk of dropping out of school. The majority of my students work hard but test poorly, though a small percentage of them are unmotivated.
Edsurge
APRIL 4, 2023
But I came from a family that had a lot of resources and had support — and they got me tested and really put resources in place to allow me to thrive. That was sort of her first one really looking at the failure of early reading instruction. I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was 14 years old, and it was a real challenge.
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