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Electronic Oregon testing system "crashes and burns"
In Oregon, the online system of testing students broke down this week. The Associated Press’s Aaron Clark reports that the problems may be part of hardball negotiating tactics of Vantage Learning while it tries to wrest what it can from the state on the contract that’s ending this year. One Oregon teacher described the situation as […]
Accountability Frankenstein: the podcast
The Accountability Frankenstein podcast is now online with its first episode (a reading of the book preface, with the permission of the publisher). Successive podcasts will be released approximately twice a month for the next half-year or so (possibly longer).
Enron and the social meaning of cheating
Kevin Carey’s entry today at The Quick and the Ed references a comment I made yesterday to Enron and Worldcom, in a discussion about test preparation. I’m not sure if he realized he was taking my reference out of context, but he makes an important argument, even if it’s only half of the picture.
Some typical responses to concerns about test-prep
Both Eduwonk and This Week in Education are minimizing the concerns over test-prep that are illustrated by the Washington Post “bubble kids” story over the weekend. Eduwonk (aka Andy Rotherham) calls it “hand-wringing and whining,” and and TWiE (aka Alexander Russo) says it’s essentially revisiting the issue “whose scope and depth and negative impact remain […]
The bubble kids
Daniel de Vise’s story in the Washington Post today is an illustration of high-stakes testing triage, describing what happened in January in Wood Middle School in Rockville, Maryland: Principal Renee Foose told teachers to cross off the names of students who had virtually no chance of passing and those certain to pass. Those who remained, […]