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Shared responsibilities III: The next ESEA
Over the summer, Charles Barone challenged me to put up or shut up on NCLB/ESEA. I immediately said that was fair; Accountability Frankenstein had a last chapter that was general, not specific to federal law. I’m stuck in an airport lounge waiting for a late flight, so I have an occasion to write this now. […]
A higher-ed unionist’s view of the performance-pay debate
Corey Bunje Bower criticized a Newsweek column by Jonathan Alter and has the following response to Alter’s slur against teacher unions: Perhaps the most ridiculous thing that Alter writes — and the statement that gives away the ideological underpinnings of his argument if anybody wasn’t already aware — is that unions “still believe that protecting […]
Crisis rhetoric, attention seeking, and capacity building
Berliner and Biddle’s The Manufactured Crisis was the independent reading choice of several students in my summer doctoral course, and as they have been writing comments on the book in the last week, I have been thinking about the split retrospective view of the 1983 A Nation at Risk report, produced by the National Commission […]
Can reporters raise their game in writing about education research?
I know that I still owe readers the ultimate education platform and the big, hairy erratum I promised last month, but the issue of research vetting has popped up in the education blogule*, and it’s something I’ve been intending to discuss for some time, so it’s taking up my pre-10:30-am time today. In brief, Eduwonkette […]
Default policy frames, rationality, and Mr. Bayes
About five weeks ago, Kevin Carey wrote a longish blog entry about null hypotheses, the status quo, and decision-making about policy. The gist of Carey’s argument was that we should be willing to make policy changes with a preponderance of evidence in favor of change.