Florida vouchers
I haven’t had time yet to read the Florida Supreme Court decision striking down Gov. Bush’s first voucher program. Apparently it was based on the uniform public education clause in the state constitution. Ironically, the question is close to the issue that was disposed of first in this long-lived lawsuit, whether the state can spend […]
Nichols, Glass, and Berliner
Today, Education Policy Analysis Archives publishes High-Stakes Testing and Student Achievement by Sharon L. Nichols (U. Texas San Antonio), Gene V Glass, and David C. Berliner (both of Arizona State University). It’s a provocative article that argues that an extensive effort to look for relationships between high-stakes testing and state-level performance on NAEP from the […]
Expectations
Six years ago (minus one day), my article America Y2K predicted that the obsolescence of the “America 2000” national education goals would mean neither the absence of political pressure on schools nor necessarily thoughtful reflection about what expectations we should hold of schools. I think those predictions have been validated by the first five years […]