NJSBA and PARCC: Going Along to Get Along?
It looks like NJSBA has learned its lesson: if you want to get along, go along. They should embroider it on the pillows in their new offices.
Standardized Testing
When Will We Finally Say 'Enough'?
To see just how flawed, false, and harmful it is all you need to do is read stories like these.
Why Does the Public Hate Standardized Tests?
The New Jersey Education Association, the state's largest teachers union, released a bombshell of a poll yesterday; click through to see the raw results for all voters
Why The Test Debate Is About Politics, Not Education
While the arguments on both sides continue to vie back and forth over issues of how many tests should be given and how frequently, what’s completely lost in the debate is the more important issue of how tests are used.
Debunking "Quality" Ratings
Try this experiment at home: take the ratings your state gives school districts and rank them according to the percentage of students in each school district who qualify for the federal free and reduced price school lunch program. What do you see?
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Changing The Language From Anti-Testing To Pro-Whole Child
Let me lay out the argument and the reason why, instead of referring to myself as anti-testing, I’m calling myself pro-whole-child.
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Pro-Public School Dean Shakes Up My Home Town
Last week I wrote a column in Madison's alternative weekly, Isthmus about a new kid in town. The piece has generated a ton of traffic and a lot of chatter locally, as I figured it would.
An Alternative to Accountability-Based Education Reform
During three decades of accountability based on standards and high-stakes testing at the state level and another decade-plus of federal oversight of that accountability, the overwhelming evidence has exposed accountability as a failed network of policies in education reform.
Breaking News: School Segregation Study Strikes A Nerve
Today’s Breaking News comic represents the non-difference between De facto and De jure segregation of schools.
It is rare that an education study strikes a nerve in the media
Superintendent Slams Testing
Should first-graders really be expected to know how to explain why Mesopotamia is the cradle of civilization? Kudos to the Vorheeseville Central School District superintendent in New York for speaking up--and explaining to the community how test scores are manipulated.
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