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Eight days to read 400+ pages
Time to call BS on George Miller and Buck McKeown: the release of an initial draft of NCLB’s reauthorization was accompanied by a letter saying the public would have eight days to comment. I guess that they gave us a day beyond a week to accomodate the Labor Day holiday. So much for wanting public input. […]
Parents change their minds on teaching to the test
Since 2002, the annual fall release of results from the Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of public attitudes towards public education has become increasingly focused on NCLB. Today’s release (hat tip) is no exception, and my guess is that most reporters will run with the results of the first section on NCLB and accountability. My nomination […]
Multiple issues in multiple measures
In his July 30 statement at the National Press Club, House Education and Labor Committee Chair George Miller said that his plans for reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act included the addition of multiple measures, an incantation that has provoked more Sturmunddrang in national education politics than if Rep. Miller had stood at the podium […]
A conversation with Doug Christensen
The audio (mp3) of a discussion last Saturday among Nebraska Education Commissioner Doug Christensen, Maryland teacher Ken Bernstein, and me is now available online. The discussion was recorded at a session of YearlyKos in Chicago.
Framing NCLB debates
Matthew Yglesias has a point about the the details of NEA’s No Contractor Left Behind flyer passed out liberally at YearlyKos this weekend. Yglesias notes that the message of the flyer relies on sloppy reasoning and is more sensationalist than sensible. I’m worried by something else about the flyer: it’s irrelevant to NCLB policy debates. […]