Clemson, prestige, and reputation
Despite its attempt to claw back from an unintentional statement of truth, Clemson’s apparent manipulation/gaming of the U.S. News rankings system should give people one more reason to read Brewer, Gates, and Goldman’s In Pursuit of Prestige (library copies), about the difference between colleges and universities that try to move up the rankings, on the […]
The Procrustean bed of teacher tests
Mike Petrilli’s stab at the Sonia Sotomayor nomination via the Massachusetts teacher tests is a little askew, and I’m surprised he didn’t look at an obvious dilemma that’s deeper than the politics of a judicial nomination. Several former teachers have sued the state (and Pearson) for what they claim is a discriminatory impact of teacher […]
Texas, South Carolina, Missouri, and Alaska
I know that the reports of the common-standards agreement shepherded by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association describe a few different reasons for why four states have not joined in a standards framework that is probably going to be about as close to a less-is-more approach as one can […]