Rachel Levy on Framing the Education Reform Debate Rachel is making all kinds of sense here: One of the more troubling things about the education reform debates is not that they happen, but how they’re framed–the debates and their participants are often misrepresented. First, some folks inaccurately ...
Megan McArdle on Standardized Tests Here’s Megan: I spend a lot of time fighting over school reform, and even so, when I go to report stories on this, I’m still blown away by the poor quality of the education that many kids receive. I frequently feel like when I’m arguing education ...
Grifters and the Cult of Savviness Here’s DougJ at Balloon Juice, with a theory: Sometimes, though, I think that we have become a nation of grifters and that standardized tests are part of the reason why. When I say “grifter” here, I’m not referring to all the welfare queens buying ...
