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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the NCLB that resists
Lots of stuff at the start of the weekend marking the 10th anniversary of NCLB’s signing by President George W. Bush, from Dana Goldstein (the best short summary I have read recently) to Andrew Rotherham (the best short defense) to the public release of a draft, GOP-only bill in the House scrapping much of NCLB’s machinery, and […]
Public policy can override professional judgment, but very cautiously
This afternoon I’ve been in a Twitter exchange with Benjamin Riley over the issue of when public policy can override teacher judgment and how much the current wave of reformy legislation is ignoring teacher judgment. (Or, rather, I’ve been moderately active while he’s been in a much broader Twitter exchange.) I pulled out the obvious […]
Accountability Frankenstein 50% off trade paperback this week
Shamless plug alert: All Information Age Publishing titles are half-price this week for trade paperback editions when you order directly from the publisher, which means you can pick up Accountability Frankenstein for $23 plus shipping. You can also pick up Gene Glass’s Fertilizers, Pills, and Magnet Strips, Johanningmeier and Richardson’s Educational Research, the National Agenda, and […]
Old-fashioned alt-academic careers: Diane Ravitch
Take an alternative route from academic training, acquire elder-statecraft status, say what you want, get written up. That’s pretty much what happened to Diane Ravitch, as told either by Dana Goldstein or Kevin Carey this year. ((See the responses to Carey’s recent piece by Goldstein and Mike Petrilli. I don’t know the extent to which […]
“Widget Effect” report is rolling in its grave
You don’t have to be as flip as Leo Casey to see the problem with Jocelyn Huber’s op-ed in the Tennessean today, which is a generic, bland defense of tying student test scores to teacher and principal evaluation. Huber’s op-ed is almost certainly in response to Monday’s NYT article by Michael Winerip, which identifies (and dramatizes) the […]