Peter Greene: The Essential Foolishness of the Fordham-CAP “Moonshot”
Peter Greene writes here about the “moonshot” to transform American education, co-sponsored by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the allegedly liberal Center...
Category : Campbell’s Law
New Study Finds That NCLB Got Small and Diminishing Returns
No Child Left Behind will be recognized in time as the most colossal failure in federal education policy, whose disastrous effects were amplified by Race...
John Merrow: End the D.C. Scam and Sham
John Merrow has followed the D.C. fiasco closely. He has been all over D.C. since he spent three years celebrating Michelle Rhee’s Leadership, then...
New York Celebrates Half Point Rise in Graduation Rate: Is It Real?
New York State released the latest graduation rate data. The grad rate went up by half a percentage point, from 79.7% to 80.2%. http://www.nysed.gov/news/2018/state-education-department-releases-2013-cohort-high-school-graduation-rates...
Karin Klein on Campbell’s Law and “Miracle Schools”
For many years, Karin Klein wrote editorials about education for the Los Angeles Times. She took a buyout and now writes freelance on education and...
Erich Martel: In D.C., Gaming the System is Commonplace
Erich Martel is a retired D.C. teacher and current whistleblower. The principal of the much-criticized Ballou High School–where chronic absenteeism was ignored–has been removed, but...
NPR: The Hoax of the D.C. Public School Where 100% of Seniors Graduated and Were Accepted by Colleges
Last July, I wrote about a struggling high school in D.C. where 100% of the seniors graduated and were accepted by colleges. The story appeared...
John King: High-Stakes Testing Is Necessary for Equity and Civil Rights
John King, who served as Secretary of Education after Arne Duncan departed, went to the Cleveland City Club to praise high-stakes testing as the route...
Tom Ultican: Credit Recovery and the Farce of Rising Graduation Rates
Tom Ultican left the private sector to teach physics and mathematics in a California public school. He writes here about how setting targets for graduation...
Success Academy: Statisticians Explain How Schools That Obsess About Test Scores Ruin the Validity of Tests as a Measure
Statisticians Mark Palko and Andrew Gelman explain why a relentless obsession with test scores ruins the value of the scores. As their prime example, they...