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If Fewer or No Tests, Then What?
When I responded to Students Should Be Tested More, Not Less by Jessica Lahey and the related study by Henry L. Roediger III and Jeffrey D. Karpicke in the blog post Students Should Be Tested Less, Then Not at All, resulting comments and Tweets suggest that the topic of moving toward fewer and even no tests needs further discussion and clarification. One aspect of debating the role of tests in edu
Writing Is Learned by Writing (1953)
Writing Is Learned by Writing (1953).
Duncan’s Bizarro World, Where Lie Is Truth and Truth Is Lie
Duncan’s Bizarro World, Where Lie Is Truth and Truth Is Lie.
JAN 23
On Public Schools and Common Core: Graff’s Critique of Ravitch
On Public Schools and Common Core: Graff’s Critique of Ravitch.
On Public Schools and Common Core: Graff’s Critique of Ravitch
Are U.S. public schools failing, and if so, will implementing Common Core and next-generation tests as part of school accountability correct those failures? At Valerie Strauss’s The Answer Sheet, Gerald Graff, an English professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has challenged Diane Ravitch’s stance on the both public schools and Common Core, which he characterizes as follows: “Public ed
JAN 22
Students Should Be Tested Less, Then Not at All
Students Should Be Tested More, Not Less by Jessica Lahey is not a compelling case to test students more, but another example of journalism failing to represent accurately a relatively limited study related to education. Several aspects of the article reveal that the title and apparent claim of the need for more testing are misleading: Henry L. Roediger III, a cognitive psychologist at Washington
JAN 21
Pulling a Greene: Why Advocacy and Market Forces Fail Education Reform [Redux]
Jay P. Greene, Ph.D., is Endowed Chair and Head of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. The Department of Education Reform is heavily funded by Walton money, and it is important to understand that the Walton family (of Walmart) are strong school choice advocates. In 2011, not long after I published a book challenging school choice through a critical perspective, I warn
JAN 20
Dream Deferred, MLK Day 2014: “This rigid refusal to look at ourselves”
“What happens to a dream deferred?” asks Langston Hughes in “Harlem.” As a poem of social consciousness, “Harlem” may often be reduced to literary analysis or an artifact of the Harlem Renaissance; as schools become more and more focused on the Common Core and raising scores on the related next-generation tests, the poem is likely to be (if at all) just one more text for close reading practice. Bu
JAN 19
Muscle Cramps, Evidence, and the Public Education Reform Debate
For almost thirty years, I have been a serious recreational and competitive cyclist. Despite my goals as a cyclist focusing primarily on endurance events—such as English centuries (100 miles) over mountain courses (elevation gains of 10,000 feet and more) and single-day rides of 220+ miles—I have also been that entire time prone to muscle cramps. Since cramping has often ruined my targeted events,
Certain Criteria for Classifying Pupils in Literature Courses (1927)
Certain Criteria for Classifying Pupils in Literature Courses (1927).
Network for Public Education 2014 National Conference
Network for Public Education 2014 National Conference Robin Hiller | Executive Director | robin@networkforpubliceducation.org | (520) 668-4634 PRESS RELEASE January 19, 2014 The Network for Public Education has announced a national gathering of public education activists. The organization’s first National Conference will take place at The Thompson Conference Center at the University of Texas at A
Intelligence Rating of High School Pupils and Their Achievement in College (1926)
Intelligence Rating of High School Pupils and Their Achievement in College (1926).
JAN 18
Should SC Ditch Common Core?
Reporting at Education Week, Andrew Ujifusa notes: In a clear signal that the Common Core State Standards are in hot water in South Carolina, Gov. Nikki Haley told a meeting of a local Republican Party women’s club that she was determined to ditch the standards this year because, she said, ”We don’t ever want to educate South Carolina children like they educate California children.” In response to
On Public Schools and Common Core: Graff's Critique of Ravitch
On Public Schools and Common Core: Graff's Critique of Ravitch
JAN 22
JAN 21
Pulling a Greene: Why Advocacy and Market Forces Fail Education Reform [Redux]
Pulling a Greene: Why Advocacy and Market Forces Fail Education Reform [Redux]
JAN 20
Muscle Cramps, Evidence, and the Public Education Reform Debate
Muscle Cramps, Evidence, and the Public Education Reform Debate
Dream Deferred, MLK Day 2014: "This rigid refusal to look at ourselves"
Dream Deferred, MLK Day 2014: "This rigid refusal to look at ourselves"
JAN 17
Teacher Effect v. Measurable Teacher “Value”: Some Clarifications
Teacher Effect v. Measurable Teacher “Value”: Some Clarifications
