The Grassroots Education Movement, a group of citizens in New York City, are organizing a campaign against the high stakes use of standardized testing in their schools. Their first meeting will be on July 18th at the CUNY Graduate Center. According the organizers of...
I've read the complete report on the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) CRCT testing scandal. It's hard to believe that there was such widespread activity in which student answers on the state's CRCT bubble sheets were changed. Why? That is the central question of this...
PISA, the Program for International Student Assessment, released results last month, and you would have thought the sky was falling if you listened to Secretary of Education. PISA is an international assessment that is administered every three years to 15 year-old...
Some educators and corporate leaders would have us believe that the single most important factor influencing student achievement is the student's teacher. They have launched a campaign to use student learning data to rid the schools of ineffective teachers. There is...
There are two articles that you might want to read either before or after you read this post. The first article was in the New York Times and is entitled: Teacher Ratings get a New Look, Pushed by a Rich Watcher. The other article is actually a blog post and is...
Last week I was asked to contribute to the Room for Debate discussion site on The Opinion Pages of the New York Times. On a nearly daily basis, Room for Debate posses a questions, and solicits contributions from four or five individuals. The Room for Debate topics...
