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Nancy Bailey: There is No Need to Give NAEP Tests in Kindergarten!

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7January 22, 2022January 23, 2022

January 22, 2022January 23, 202205

Experienced teacher Nancy Bailey opposes Michael Petrilli’s proposal to give NAEP tests to kindergartners. Petrilli, who is president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute...

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Alabama: Politicians Win, Educators Lose

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7June 20, 2021June 21, 2021

June 20, 2021June 21, 2021048

Larry Lee, a close follower of education politics in Alabama and former board member in Montgomery, writes here about an ill-informed decision by Governor Kay...

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What You Need to Know About Standardized Testing

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7February 4, 2021February 5, 2021

February 4, 2021February 5, 2021067

Valerie Strauss posted this article that I wrote on her Washington Post site “The Answer Sheet.” The tests now required by federal law are worthless....

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Louisiana: Reading Scores in Early Grades Decline under Reformer John White

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7January 27, 2021January 28, 2021

January 27, 2021January 28, 2021046

Louisiana has been firmly in the grip of “reformers” (i.e., believers in privatization, Teach for America, and high-stakes testing) for many years. The “reformers’” biggest...

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Andrea Gabor: First Tasks for Secretary Cardona: Cancel Standardized Testing, Pursue Equity

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7December 26, 2020December 27, 2020

December 26, 2020December 27, 2020050

Andrea Gabor has some good ideas about what the new Secretary of Education must do. President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for education secretary, Miguel Cardona, will...

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NAEP 2021 Has Been Canceled. State Tests Should Also Be Canceled.

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7December 1, 2020December 2, 2020

December 1, 2020December 2, 2020076

The accountability hawks have decided that NAEP testing must be canceled this spring because of the pandemic, but the burdensome, useless, meaningless annual testing of...

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What Does NAEP Really Tell Us?

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7November 19, 2020November 26, 2020

November 19, 2020November 26, 2020064

James Harvey, executive director of the National Superintendents Roundtable, regularly sends out news bulletins about education. His group might be thought of as the antithesis...

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NAEP 12th Grade Scores: Unchanged Since 2005

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7October 29, 2020November 26, 2020

October 29, 2020November 26, 2020047

Those of you who have followed this blog for many years know that I don’t put much stock in twelfth grade NAEP (National Assessment of...

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Why Does the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Repeatedly Lie about Vouchers in Florida?

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7June 30, 2020November 26, 2020

June 30, 2020November 26, 2020046

The Wall Street Journal editorial board has three core beliefs about education. 1. Public schools are horrible. 2. Teachers’ unions are evil. 3. Non-unionized charters...

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NAEP Scores Drop in History, Civics: DeVos Blames Public Schools, Not NCLB, RTTT, ESSA, CCSS

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7April 23, 2020November 26, 2020

April 23, 2020November 26, 2020048

The National Center for Education Statistics released NAEP scores in history and geography, which declined, and in civics, which were flat. Secretary of Education Betsy...

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