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Department of Something
I’ve wanted to respond to an early August post of Timothy Burke’s for a few months, but I’ve been swamped with a number of other tasks, and it took an early Saturday morning of some other mundanities to justify my splurging on this reply. This really started with Mark Bauerlein, so you can complain to him […]
Parents change their minds on teaching to the test
Since 2002, the annual fall release of results from the Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of public attitudes towards public education has become increasingly focused on NCLB. Today’s release (hat tip) is no exception, and my guess is that most reporters will run with the results of the first section on NCLB and accountability. My nomination […]
Multiple issues in multiple measures
In his July 30 statement at the National Press Club, House Education and Labor Committee Chair George Miller said that his plans for reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act included the addition of multiple measures, an incantation that has provoked more Sturmunddrang in national education politics than if Rep. Miller had stood at the podium […]
Raul Hilberg, 81
Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg died over the weekend. I never met him, but he deeply affected my understanding of history and human cruelty. As a child raised in a American Jewish household in the 1960s and 1970s, I was exposed to the first generation of Holocaust education. (I didn’t know until a few years ago […]
National Standards as Policy Machismo
Alexander Russo and I agree on National (Yawn) Standards (Again) (his title), regarding last week’s CEP report on state proficiency percentage trends and the NCES comparison of state proficiency cut-scores and NAEP cut-scores and also the double-report week’s politics. In a different way, I also agree with U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings in her […]