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The politics of cut scores
Yesterday, the St. Petersburg Times published Letitia Stein’s story describing the twists and turns of setting cut scores in Florida’s 10th-grade tests. The deeper story is not the inherent tensions in setting cut scores. There’s no doubt that cut scores are arbitrary. The question is whether they are arbitrary in the sense of arbitrary and capricious […]
Diane Ravitch: Feds should only do what it can
Diane Ravitch’s Huffington Post entry last Sunday is both a solid description of what NCLB requires for accountability and a sharp criticism. The money quote: In the future, the federal government should do only what the federal government can competently do. Its historic role has been three-fold: one, to collect and disseminate information about the […]
Accountability Frankenstein is now printed!
Copies of Accountability Frankenstein appeared in my mailbox this afternoon. Hurrah! You can buy it directly from the publisher. (Yes, it’s available at Amazon.com, but for small publishers, I understand that Amazon is much like Wal-Mart, and I want to make clear that I’m putting the link in for convenience, not because I prefer you use […]
News item: Oregon Department of Education falls off continental shelf
According to a quick Google News search, no paper outside Oregon has picked up the story about the testing disaster in the state. Not Ed Week, nor any of the metro dailies. Wow. For the reporters who read this blog (all 1.5 of you), um, er, … isn’t the contracting controversy and the massive disruption enough […]
Who wrote Frankenstein
By Sherman Dorn on April 15, 2007
Germaine Greer neatly shreds John Lauritsen’s argument that Mary Shelley didn’t write Frankenstein. Hat tip: Erin O’Connor. Also see Miriam Burstein’s comments.
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