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Get Accountability Frankenstein for $10!!
Information Age Publishing is having a ten-year anniversary sale where you can get 10 or more books from their catalog for $10 each. Their authors, editors, and series editors include Gene Glass, Ernie House, Erwin Johanningmeier, Terry Richarson, Tom Popkewitz, Kathy Borman, Kenneth Wong, Jaekyung Lee, Maurice Berube, V.P. Franklin, Carol Camp Yeakey, and many […]
Take a breath (if you don’t have asthma) and go on
I don’t have asthma, but as my head cold morphs into the ordinary misery of seasonal allergies, I realize it’s a darned nuisance not to be able to breathe comfortably. With luck I’ll shortly be back to normal (or at least for what passes as normal for me), and in times like these, it pays […]
On exaggerations in the service of bitterness
Today, Charles Barone indulged in some recriminations about the use of test data to evaluate teachers: “In fact, in many states there is tremendous pressure to pass legislation which assures a firewall-like separation between teachers and student performance. Such laws have already passed in California, New York, and Wisconsin; …” But let’s examine that claim […]
Technology and assessment
Education Sector’s new report Beyond the Bubble is shorter than I had expected, so I finished it while watching the end of my son’s tae kwondo class last night. It looks to be a decent summary of the optimistic side of technology-and-assessment literature. Its tone is, “Yes, we can dramatically change and improve assessment with […]
Klein compares Bloomberg to Putin
No, he didn’t, but at the mayoral-control hearing in Albany, according to the indefatigable Elizabeth Green, Klein defended himself passionately, arguing that mayoral control is a democratic governance structure, not an authoritarian one, as some members painted it. The logic here is weak: under that view, a plebiscite dictatorship is democratic because every few years […]