You Tell Them, Dr. Finn: Testing Today and Testing Forever
In a segment of a documentary some years back that assessed the Civil Rights Movement and its effects on education in America, Professor Chester Finn rightfully put into context all the unnecessary trouble that had been created for what, pray tell:I don't doubt that some things are better off and I think that not being able to discriminate kids on the basis of their skin color is progress for the
We Need to Do More than Talk about the Goddamn Test
Some of us have been waiting a long time for mainstream educators to realize that corporate education reform is not about closing the achievement gap but, rather, closing public schools. Since 2002, standardized tests have been used to label, demonize teachers, sort and culturally-sterilize students, and shut down schools to benefit the education technology complex and the low-life losers of the
The Raj Chetty VAM Balloon Gets Popped
From NEPC:Contact: William J. Mathis, (802) 383-0058, wmathis@sover.netMoshe Adler, (917) 453-4921, ma820@columbia.eduURL for this press release: http://tinyurl.com/kpwt6ftBOULDER, CO (April 10, 2014) – A highly influential but non-peer-reviewed report on teacher impact suffers from a series of errors in methodology and calculations, according to a new review published today.Professor Moshe Adler
America's Top Corporate Education Welfare Queen, Joanne Weiss
Joanne Weiss is an active exemplar for corporate welfare exploitation in education. Just a few years ago, she moved from a tech firm to become COO for the New Schools Venture Fund, which grew to be a massive slush fund for vulture philanthropists, following Bill Clinton's undercover operation that made it possible to earn really big bucks by backing charter schools and other ed industry bad ideas
4-9-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Responding to Karin Klein of the LA Times' 'Why my family is opting out of the Common Core testing'"The U.S. can do a much better job evaluating children, teachers and schools. That's why protests against standardized testing misuse and overuse are exploding across the nation."—FairTest The Los Angeles Times' long time school privatization cheerleader Karin Klein penned a