Republicans are revolting
Please don’t make the obvious joke: Mel Brooks had the best shot at it many years ago. But the Washington Post story on Peter Hoekstra’s NCLB-emasculation bill is a telling indicator of the president’s declining moral and political authority within his own party. In 2000, he convinced voters he was a “compassionate conservative,” and his (deserved […]
NCLB "just like a communist country"?
In today’s Washington Post story on NCLB and the 100% proficiency goal, Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) is quoted with the inevitable comparison to outlandish claims from the Soviet era: “It’s just like a communist country saying that they used to have 100 percent participation in elections,” Hoekstra said. “You knew it wasn’t true, but a bureaucrat could […]
Cliff Adelman suggests college graduation measure adjustment
The author of The Toolbox Revisited has chimed in with his suggested solution to the awful IPEDS graduation-rate and the unit records database proposal. Cliff Adelman’s idea of expanding the base of students included in the graduation rate, reporting separately by entering mode, and trying to connect transfers across institutions via non-federal sources is a reasonable […]
Electronic Oregon testing system "crashes and burns"
In Oregon, the online system of testing students broke down this week. The Associated Press’s Aaron Clark reports that the problems may be part of hardball negotiating tactics of Vantage Learning while it tries to wrest what it can from the state on the contract that’s ending this year. One Oregon teacher described the situation as […]
One of those days when the walrus stomps on your toe while reading sonnets…
By Sherman Dorn on March 13, 2007
In several ways, the day has been quite good, from discovering that the way a friend and I had thought of poking around the back of Richard Ingersoll’s work is quite interesting in the results to completing several critical errands. Then there are the other things, from driving 50 miles in city traffic starting at […]
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