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@dianeravitch also critical of the #POTUS plan for higher education, via...
As a faculty member in education, I worry about this juggernaut of accountability reaching us, which it surely will, where my students’ students’ test scores will be used to evaluate our program and...
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Man, @johnkuhntx hits it out of the park again at #edweek
I only wish more superintendents were this clear and courageous. I’ve been in several conversations lately that make me think all is lost, that the statisticians and accountability hounds are going to...
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GAO report finds evidence of cheating in 33 states
Here’s the report. I would go on to say that any school that engages in explicit test preparation is already “cheating.” Tagged: accountability, cheating, gao, testing
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Just Acquired: Slide one from a USDE presentation on new accountability...
Does this slide not look oddly familiar? It must be some kind of really terrible government Powerpoint template. And to think, as a result of this initiative, schools are actually using Powerpoint...
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Accountability for the bottom, immunity at the top, incompetence all around
Bill Maher’s recent New Rule is somewhat applicable to our current moment in education reform. Watch it now, or later, and come back here. One of the chief problems in education right now involves the...
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After Forty Years of Test-Based Acccountability, Almost Nothing and Less than...
The federal information clearinghouse, ERIC, had 9 entries for the subject, “educational accountability,” in 1970. By 1972, there were 440 entries for that year. In 2010, the number of entries...
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Have Four Decades of Test Based Accountability Closed the Public and Catholic...
One way to gauge the effects of over four decades of more testing with higher stakes is to examine how NAEP public school scores compare over time with the Catholic schools, which have not and do not...
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Accountability? Start at the Top
Prompted by Anthony Cody’s “Teachers Want Accountability From the Top,” let me offer a piece of mine from 2011: Accountability? Start at the Top For nearly two decades, I taught high school English in...
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The impact of #commoncore in Kindergarten
A good friend and parent posted a video, which is embedded below, about her son’s experience in Kindergarten. It’s important to remember that accountability in public education is for now one single...
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Who Speaks for Whom?
With the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington before us, two moments should inform the education reform debate and the essential issue of who speaks for whom. Gloria Richardson confronted the...
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Spellings Doubles-Down on “Incredibly Complicated” High-Stakes Testing
While political and popular debates teeter on the brink somewhere between surreal and catastrophic—consider the mess that is Sarah Palin homophobic-splaining the Phil Robertson controversy—the media...
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Van Roekel to NEA: With what will you replace the accountability system?
It’s not the first time Dennis Van Roekel (DVR) has asked this loaded question. Last year, DVR asked the NEA membership at large, during an interview, with what they would purport to replace the Common...
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Dead beat
Man, have I been the dead beat dad of this blog or what? My schedule has been kind of random lately. Once the semester kicks into full gear, I can gather some consistency and keep this going. So, a...
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#Teacher #education is the next boondoggle
Blip-blip-input-blip-output. Makes you kind of remember the days of computer punch cards when you hear a thing like this: “It’s a really important piece to change the system and to build this...
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Middle school science teacher suggests teaching science to prevent curriculum...
So, as the title suggests, check Russo’s post here. I don’t understand how adding one more subject to the testing roll will help us with the problems of test driven education reform. Look, this debate...
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