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Two brief comments
I promised not to comment on anything during my two-week break, but the NewTalk NCLBfest made me wonder who’s missing from this debate. Your observations in the comments are most welcome. Also, I think I may have alienated my family forever by going against their advice and buying a Sony Reader. Even my technophile son […]
A higher-ed unionist’s view of the performance-pay debate
Corey Bunje Bower criticized a Newsweek column by Jonathan Alter and has the following response to Alter’s slur against teacher unions: Perhaps the most ridiculous thing that Alter writes — and the statement that gives away the ideological underpinnings of his argument if anybody wasn’t already aware — is that unions “still believe that protecting […]
Ocala rethinks high grade-retention rates
In the late 1990s, Florida instituted a requirement that third-graders reach a certain test threshold in reading or be held back in third grade. Now Marion County schools (which includes Ocala) is rethinking grade retention where it can (hat tip), once they realized they had several hundred middle-school students who could legally drive. The research […]
Review of “Accountability Frankenstein”
As far as I’m aware, Teachers College Record recently published the first review of Accountability Frankenstein. From the comments by Dick Schutz, “If you are in any way concerned with the status and future of US el-hi education, you owe it to yourself to read this book.” You can read the review to see where […]
Crisis rhetoric, attention seeking, and capacity building
Berliner and Biddle’s The Manufactured Crisis was the independent reading choice of several students in my summer doctoral course, and as they have been writing comments on the book in the last week, I have been thinking about the split retrospective view of the 1983 A Nation at Risk report, produced by the National Commission […]