INBOX is a weekly e-mail wrap-up of the most important stories in English language arts education, ideas for your classroom, and news from NCTE.
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From the Current Issue:
Tucson Board Suspends Ethnic Studies Program
Many books are banned as a result. The Arizona Republic, January 11, 2012
In Protest of Anti-Piracy Bill, Wikipedia to Go Dark
National Public Radio/The Associated Press, January 16, 2012
New Details Surface about Common Assessments
Computers will figure prominently in the tests being produced by PARCC and Smarter Balanced. Education Week, January 11, 2012 (subscription required)
. . . More on Computer Grading
"The End of Multiple Choice? The Quest to Create Accurate Robot Essay Graders": FastCoExist.com, January 12, 2012
"How Intelligent Scoring Will Create an Intelligent System": The Huffington Post, January 9, 2012
CCCC Position Statement on Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Writing in Digital Environments
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