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Off to Birmingham!
I’m off to Birmingham today for the Southeast Philosophy of Education Society meeting, where I’m talking about expertise and testing. This is a more laid-back academic meeting, and it’s a trip where I get to meet one person corresponded with for a while but have never seen face-to-face. Should be interesting, and I’ll report on […]
The "Not Ready for Prime Time" NCLB proposal
Diana Schemo’s article, Bush Proposes Broadening the No Child Left Behind Act, is a sequel to the many front-page stories about how the president spent half of his State of the Union address Tuesday talking about education and … Oh, yeah. I’m not sure what to make of the Bush trial balloons. (Better to try […]
BCS and NCLB
Right now, the teachers who work at Boise Senior High School have to be some of most anti-formula individuals in the whole country. First, they’re dinged on AYP because the school missed Idaho’s targets for one population group (students with disabilities). Now, their beloved local Boise State Broncos are the only undefeated Division I-A football […]
Boundaries, agendas, and meta-narratives
Kevin Carey has an interesting discussion about policy perspectives and POV boundaries in the context of a broader discussion about the role of teacher unions. (Minor point here: to his good, bad, and good and bad perspectives on unionization, I’d add look at the d***ed specifics. Also see Michele McLaughin’s response, which I’ll just respond to as […]
Preface passage: accountability and test contracts
My job here is not quite done: I need to write the acknowledgments and complete the marketing questionnaire. But the rest is done. Done. Done! (at least until the copyeditor comes back with 1001 queries) The following is a short passage from the preface. I scrolled down and up fairly randomly and then snipped a bit […]