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How high stakes corrupt performance on tests, other indicators - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

How high stakes corrupt performance on tests, other indicators - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

How high stakes corrupt performance on tests, other indicators

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This was written by Larry Cuban, a former high school social studies teacher (14 years, including seven at Cardozo and Roosevelt high schools in the District), district superintendent (seven years in Arlington, VA) and professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, where he has taught for 20 years. His latest book is “As Good As It Gets: What School Reform Brought to Austin.” A version of this post appeared on his blog .

By Larry Cuban

Test scores are the coin of the educational realm in the United States.No Child Left Behind demands that scores be used to reward and

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Daily Kos: Krugman on "The Austerity Debacle"

Daily Kos: Krugman on "The Austerity Debacle":

Krugman on "The Austerity Debacle"

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is a must read this morning. He begins his Monday column like this:

Last week the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a British think tank, released a startling chart comparing the current slump with past recessions and recoveries. It turns out that by one important measure — changes in real G.D.P. since the recession began — Britain is doing worse this time than it did during the Great Depression. Four years into the Depression, British G.D.P. had regained its previous peak; four years after the Great Recession began, Britain is nowhere close to regaining its lost ground.

He immediately notes that Spain and Italy, two more of Europe's big-five economies (the others being Germany and France) are also doing worse than the 1930s.

When I read that, I immediately made another connection - because in the 1930's both Italy and Spain turned Fascist.

Krugman considers what has happened "a stunning failure of policy" that unfortunately does not seem to be getting through to many policy makers in this country.

Please keep reading.

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John Kuhn on Education Funding in Texas: There is a Hole in the Bucket - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

John Kuhn on Education Funding in Texas: There is a Hole in the Bucket - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher:

John Kuhn on Education Funding in Texas: There is a Hole in the Bucket

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Guest post by John Kuhn.

"There's a hole in the bucket, Dear Liza, Dear Liza."

At the root of the school reform debate as I see it is a fundamental disagreement about causality. No one disagrees that by any number of measures (PISA scores, graduation rates, etc.) the academic outcomes of some American students are horrendously unacceptable. On this point, even Michelle Rhee and Diane Ravitch are in perfect agreement, along with everyone else who thinks even a little bit about education.

But then the wheels come off.
When you ask the question, "What caused this?"

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