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“Trust us” and “there’s plenty of oversight, honest!”
What does an education historian bring to the table on national security debates? Just this: When have we heard government officials assure the public that they’re competent and the public doesn’t need to have more information? When we have heard government officials assure the public that there is sufficient oversight of activities? When has security […]
“The Grading Game,” or a think tank report review addendum
The think tank report review by Ken Libby and me is up on the National Education Policy Center website today. This is a review of the StudentsFirst State Policy Report Card from January, and there isn’t too much more to say than what is in it, but for what it’s worth: Ken (a doctoral student […]
Seattle teachers and the administrative politics of formative assessment
This week, the expanding protest of teachers at Seattle’s Garfield High School has become a topic of national debate. It is difficult to parse out the issues because the tactics of the teachers at Garfield are relatively narrow but resonate with all sorts of larger issues around assessment.
Non-profit as trade association? (Bush foundation allegations)
If anybody had time yesterday to browse the In the Public Interest collection of emails from the Foundation for Excellence in Education, it wasn’t me. I’ve read a few accounts, such as the one on Valerie Strauss’s blog, so the following is a short, initial impression based on someone else’s summary of a few items […]
Why do California’s STAR tests have a structure to elicit a stereotype-threat effect?
I sent the following to the California State Board of Education and the California Department of Education earlier today. About a year ago I read Tedra Osell’s blog entry that included information about the California STAR exam test booklet that was highly disturbing. I contacted a few education officials in California who gave disturbingly vague […]