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Vi8gra for ur tests
In response to the growing arguments over the Miller-McKeon Title II proposal (i.e., encouragement of performance pay), Eduwonk (Andy Rotherham) writes … until education becomes a field that is comfortable with the idea of performance, it’s a field that is in some trouble. This may say something about my spam filter, but that phrase brought up images […]
The b-word and education politics
Blogger KDeRosa calls George Miller “a Whiny Bitch” (hat tip), which makes me wonder where this performative name-calling came from (see Andy Rotherham’s running joke about Rick Hess, though I don’t know where that came from, either, and I thought it would be more appropriate to call him Rick “Baby” Hess, since that’s the interjection he uses […]
Five-Year Plans and Ed Trust flexibility
Trust it to AFT’s Michele McLaughlin to find the hidden item in the Ed Trust statement on Miller-McKeon’s draft Title I language. Like many others, I had focused on the more belligerent language earlier: Although the staff draft creates an accountability fig-leaf by preserving the requirement that all students reach proficiency in reading and mathematics […]
Jack Jennings is right (part 1)
I didn’t have my computer for part of the evening, but I did have a way to record my thoughts on Jack Jennings’s testimony yesterday at the NCLB reauthorization hearing.
NCLB hearing testimony
I’m trying to find all of the written statements for yesterday’s NCLB hearing. Thus far, I have the following: Jack Jennings Kevin Carey Bob Wise Dianne Piche Nelson Smith Reg Weaver Kati Haycock Mike Petrilli Joan Wodiska Paul Houston Michael Resnick Correction: All of the testimony is listed on the committee’s hearing page, which also […]