“And I’m calling on our nation’s governors and state education chiefs to develop standards and assessments that don’t simply measure whether students can fill in a bubble on a test…”
I couldn’t agree more, Mr. President. But, as always, the devil is in the details. The Education Sector report Beyond the Bubble details how technology, along [...]
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President Obama Joins the Bubble-Bursting Bandwagon
Lots of Variety in the Sausage
This week’s New Yorker book review offers a lesson on pluralism. It compares two works, one by the long-forgotten political philosopher Arthur Fisher Bentley and one by Thomas Frank of “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” fame. This passage from the review has particular relevance to education policy:
[Frank] believes that liberals, once in power, [...]
Poor George
Poor George Miller. The chairman on the House education and labor committee seems to need a new friends and family plan in the wake of his proposed revisions to NCLB. First one of his closest confederates during the drafing of NCLB in 2001, the Education Trust , attacks Miller’s plan as “flawed, flimsy, and phony.” [...]
Understanding "Standards"
There has been much discussion of standards in the last week, fueled by the release of two major reports. The National Center for Education Statistics raised some interesting questions about the rigor of state standards and variation between the states. Their report compelled Secretary Spellings to argue against national standards on the editorial pages of [...]
Second rate nation?
12th grade NAEP results were released this morning (see here and here) at a press conference filled with gloom and doom. The results aren’t good–despite high school students taking more classes, harder classes and getting better grades, NAEP performance overall is down slightly and the achievement gaps aren’t closing.
Panelists John Engler (former governor of [...]
Stupid and Happy
So, does Brookings’ Tom Loveless know how to work the press or what? It’s all about the counterintuitive, kids. The latest Brown Center Report on American Education shows that kids in countries with higher average math test scores are less likely to say they enjoy math and are good at it than kids from countries [...]
Go Nats!
So, today’s Post features an op-ed by former Ed. Secretaries Bill Bennett and Rod Paige arguing for–wait for it–voluntary national testing. Funny how I seem to have heard that idea somewhere before… Of course, there’s no mention of Clinton or Dick Riley, who advocated voluntary national tests long before these two and when he [...]
Testing Opportunity
This Week in Education’s Alexander Russo comments on the recent news of scoring errors on the SAT:
“You think anyone’s going to go for national testing with all this going on? It’d be like saying you wanted to give more money to FEMA while Mike Brown was still there. Opponents would have a field day.”
Isn’t this [...]
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03/05/10 | Andrew Rotherham's reaction to New York as a Race to the Top finalist is mentioned on National Journal.
03/04/10 | Andrew Rotherham defends the U.S. Senate's filibuster rule in a column for the New York Daily News.
03/04/10 | Kevin Carey is quoted on college tuition increases in a CNN article.
03/02/10 | Chad Aldeman's False Fronts report generated a news article in Inside Higher Ed.
03/02/10 | Kevin Carey guestblogs about college accreditation on Higher Ed Watch.
03/02/10 | Chad Aldeman's False Fronts report generated a news article in The Chronicle of Higher Education.