So there’s debate among NCLB critics? Big deal…
The reaction of Mike Antonucci to news that Susan Ohanian calls the NEA’s leadership distancing themselves from the “dismantle NCLB” petition “bullying“? “[F]un watching NEA and Ohanian thrash it out for themselves.” (Hat tip: Eduwonk.) Maybe Antonucci is unfamiliar with something called deliberative decisionmaking, which involves discussion, decisions, and acknowledgment of dissent, but the NEA has […]
Miami Herald "legacy" piece on Jeb Bush
Marc Caputo has a smart article, Exam has changed how teachers teach, on the FCAT. He points out the double standard on accountability (how voucher schools are not accountable in the same way) and how Jeb Bush can be considered an education policy hero if only kids graduated high school at the end of fourth […]
Why did some New York charter-school proponents decline a grand compromise?
I’m generally not a fan of conspiracy theories, for a variety of reasons: they tend to be untestable (conspiracy theorists can generally rework their claims within half a second of being shown counterevidence), they tend to ignore alternative hypotheses, they tend to lack crucial evidence of contiguity (i.e., that the pieces of the supposed conspiracy […]