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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Fordham's "High Flyer" report gets low marks

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Fordham's "High Flyer" report gets low marks:

Fordham's "High Flyer" report gets low marks

"The report’s flawed analysis and interpretation leads to biased results and to an unsupported conclusion that many high-performing students do not maintain their academic edge while more low-performing students catch up." -- NEPC review of High Flyer
These days, it's getting tougher for right-wing think tanks to pass off their school reform propaganda as legitimate research. The reason? There's a group of skilled academics over at NEPC, armed with the


"What do these protesters want, anyway?"

Truthout