Rev. Jessie Jackson calls for serious investigations of all testing scandals
Written by Reverend Jessie Jackson for CNN. Read the entire article here.
“The recent disclosure of test altering practices across Atlanta’s public school system has turned the spotlight on a national crisis. Instances of grade changing and test tampering have also been reported across the country in cities such as Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia and Washington. …
Top-down polices such as the George W. Bush-era No Child Left Behind and the Obama administration’s Race to the Top have provided an incentive to manipulate test scores, deceptively report graduation rates and falsify actual student performance in our schools. …
True educational excellence is not a race to the top at the expense of short-shrifting our most precious
Ravitch weighs in on Edelman video, corporate education ''reformers'' In this post on Ed Week, Anthony Cody interviews Diane Ravitch about Jonah Edelman’s controversial presentation at the Aspen Ideas Festival. As was noted in an earlier post, Jonah Edelman’s brother Joshua was appointed by Michelle Rhee to the Office ...