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Don’t Know Much about NCLB (but have opinions)
The ETS poll on attitudes towards No Child Left Behind Act is garnering quite a bit of attention, such as from Ed Week. I love pollsters’ schizophrenia, simultaneously asserting that the public doesn’t know much about NCLB but then talking about public opinion blithely (or is it breezily?). The statement designed to gauge how much […]
Flubbing the FCAT reality check
Only months after Governor Jeb Bush left office, the facade of accurate test scores has fallen away from Florida’s high-stakes accountability system. After a drop in third-grade scores from 2006 to 2007, questions were raised about the rise in 2006 FCAT scores in third grade. With some pressure, the Florida Department of Education acknowledged in the […]
Margaret Spellings Walks into a Bar
Okay, Alexander Russo: I’ll bite on Susan Ohanian‘s request for a punch line. Margaret Spellings walked into a bar. Barkeep sighed with relief. “At least she’s not going to give another speech about ‘razing the bar.’”
National Standards as Policy Machismo
Alexander Russo and I agree on National (Yawn) Standards (Again) (his title), regarding last week’s CEP report on state proficiency percentage trends and the NCES comparison of state proficiency cut-scores and NAEP cut-scores and also the double-report week’s politics. In a different way, I also agree with U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings in her […]
No one knows NCLB’s effects
In its new report, Answering the Question That Matters Most: Has Student Achievement Increased Since No Child Left Behind?, the Center on Education Policy provides the obvious answer: No one knows. There is some evidence of increasing achievement on some [later: many state test] measures, but attributing that to NCLB is foolhardy. With such ambiguous […]