Low-stakes testing promoted by high-stakes advocate
A guest blogger at the Progressive Policy Institute’s Eduwonk proposes that all students in AP courses take the AP tests as an incentive for teachers to focus on the official Advanced Placement curriculum. Let me get this right, according to the author: It’s no shame to fail: for kids, they learn what college rigor is […]
Eduwonk
The DLC-affiliated Public Policy Institute has a blog, Eduwonk.com. Unfortunately, they’re not letting anyone else in on the conversation with comments. Come on, folks: what are you afraid of? Comments are a significant part of what distinguishes a blog from a rant. Okay, many blog entries are rants. But intellectual life requires openness to dialog, […]
Liars at ACTA
I have never seen ACTA address any of these issues undermining liberal-arts education (please correct me if I’m wrong!) and have seen ACTA turn a blind eye to the violations of its principles by supposed friends.