{"id":412,"date":"2005-11-26T07:12:07","date_gmt":"2005-11-26T11:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=412"},"modified":"2005-11-26T07:12:07","modified_gmt":"2005-11-26T11:12:07","slug":"news-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"News &#038; stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small spate of ed news, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/11\/23\/AR2005112300806.html\">another piece by Jay Mathews on AP classes<\/a> (the guy&#8217;s persistent!) to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/11\/21\/AR2005112101287.html\">Mathews&#8217; discussion of parental involvement vs. academic focus<\/a> in a study on California API results (whoever thinks that the API is a decent measure?  Hmmph), the NY Times on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/11\/26\/education\/26tests.html\">state test v. NAEP threholds for different normative values like &#8220;proficient&#8221;<\/a> (remember, folks, all &#8220;proficiency&#8221; ratings are arbitrary cuts that create ordinal scales), and the Washington Post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/11\/21\/AR2005112101732.html\">Margaret Spellings&#8217; trying to be flexible on NCLB<\/a> (or, to borrow language from <em>Yes, Prime Minister<\/em>, trying to look as if she&#8217;s trying to be flexible, because even if others are probably aware that she&#8217;s trying to look as if she&#8217;s trying to be flexible, there&#8217;s no guarantee that they&#8217;re not trying to look as if they&#8217;re not probably aware that she&#8217;s trying to look as if she&#8217;s trying to be flexible).<br \/>\nThe big one, which may or may not be big in reality, is the announcement that the Department of Education will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/news\/pressreleases\/2005\/11\/11182005.html\">inviting a limited number of states to be piloting growth models<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been observing the discussion of growth or value-added models of student achievement for more than a decade, and I&#8217;ll have something to say on this in the next few days, but I&#8217;ve got some other projects that take precedence this weekend&#151;a hobby rocketry science project to be the flunky for, some bills to pay, some articles to finish prepping for <a href=\"http:\/\/epaa.asu.edu\/\">Education Policy Analysis Archives<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small spate of ed news, from another piece by Jay Mathews on AP classes (the guy&#8217;s persistent!) to Mathews&#8217; discussion of parental involvement vs. academic focus in a study on California API results (whoever thinks that the API is a decent measure? Hmmph), the NY Times on state test v. 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