Don’t expect Congress to end test-and-punish core of NCLB
Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin just introduced a new bill that would rewrite No Child Left Behind, which nearly all people in the education world believe to be fatally flawed. Here’s a piece on why the Harkin bill and the likely Republican counterpart in the House won’t fix the problems of NCLB. It was written by Monty Neill, executive director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing, known as FairTest,which works to eliminate the overuse of high-stakes standardized tests.By Monty Neill
Both houses of Congress are starting to take another crack at rewriting the flawed No Child Left Behind law through the long-overdue reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. However, the Democratic bill released Tuesday by Senator Tom Harkin and likely bills from House Republicans will be so different that chances of final passage approach zero. Unfortunately, neither house is going to eliminate the test-and-punish core of NCLB – even though the growing public demand for fundamental
Is it really this easy to block the Common Core?
This post is the second in a 10-part series called “Dispatches from a Nervous Common Core Observer,” written by Michael McShane, a research fellow in education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative non-profit think tank in Washington … Continue reading →
How college students incorrectly evaluate their instructors
Williams College Assistant Professor Nate Kornell’s Psychology Today blog has one of my favorite blog names: Everybody Is Stupid Except You. Kornell, a cognitive psychologist, researches and writes about learning as they relate to education. He focuses on how to … Continue reading →