Following up on the post below about the notion that NCLB is just a stalking horse for a broader conspiracy against public education.
Over the last six years, the Bush administration has supported a whole range of radical and/or deeply conservative policies, and in many cases they’ve managed to spin these ideas as sensible and/or moderate. [...]
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The Phantom Pro-NCLB Anti-Public Education Conspiracy
Don’t Go There
I haven’t read Rod Paige’s new book on teachers unions, but I assume that Andy Rotherham’s negative review is on the mark. The bottom line is that once you slander an entire group of educators by calling them a “terrorist organization,” you really can’t go on and write a book subtitled “How Teacher Unions Hurt [...]
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 [...]
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/19/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on college graduation rates and the NCAA Tournament in the Detroit Free Press.
03/19/10 | Linda Perlstein links to Education Sector's "College- and Career-Ready" event.
03/17/10 | Ben Miller's column on graduation rates and NCAA Tournament eligibility is mentioned on The Wall Street Journal's The Daily Fix.
03/17/10 | Kevin Carey's critique of Diane Ravitch's latest book is quoted in Doublethink's Conventional Folly blog.
03/15/10 | Ben Miller pens an op-ed for US News & World Report on using graduation rates to determine NCAA Tournament eligibility.