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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Schools Matter: Duncan Plans to Rewrite Campbell's Law with More Surveillance and Test Security

Schools Matter: Duncan Plans to Rewrite Campbell's Law with More Surveillance and Test Security

Duncan Plans to Rewrite Campbell's Law with More Surveillance and Test Security

Noted social scientist, Donald Campbell, developed this dictum in 1976 that has since become Campbell's Law:
"The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."
And when NCLB was crafted, of course, with increasing impossible targets and punishing sanctions, would anyone doubt the outcome as the heat was raised under the pressure cooker? Even Arne? And yet the pasty one tells the media he is stunned. Could this be the Chernobyl for Testing Hysteria?
In a video interview Wednesday with 11Alive News, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne

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