Manufacturing Consent for Market-Driven Schooling
Christopher A. Lizotte of the University of Washington and Dan Cohen published an interesting research paper about how market-driven policies have been promoted and sold....
Category : Standardized Testing
Florida: DeSantis Set to Abandon Standardized Testing
Governor Ron DeSantis has decided to drop standardized testing and replace it with “progress monitoring.” The devil is in the details. How will the state...
Nancy Flanagan: It’s Time to End Our National Obsession with Test Scores
Nancy Flanagan is a retired teacher with decades of experience. In this post, she remembers when she used to take standardized test scores seriously. Then...
Jeff Bryant: The End of School “Reform”
Jeff Bryant is a journalist who specializes in education. In a recent issue of The Progressive, he details the many failures of what is falsely...
Jan Resseger: Let’s Not Lose Sight of the Harm Done by Federally Mandated Testing
Jan Resseger combines the meticulousness of a researcher and the heart of a social justice warrior. She is dismayed that the debate about federally mandated...
Jay Mathews Corrects an Error on the Blog
Jay Mathews writes about education for the Washington Post. Although he and I don’t always agree (he is a huge admirer of KIPP and wrote...
Dennis Shirley: Standardized Testing Is Obsolete
Dennis Shirley is the Duganne faculty fellow and professor at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education and Human Development. His new book with Andy Hargreaves...
Ohio: Proof That High School Students Are Smarter Than Legislators
This post appeared on the Network for Public Education website. Paul Huang and Olivia Peebles: It’s time to pass a Fair School Funding Plan This...
What I Said About NCLB and Standardized Testing a Decade Ago
In 2011, I was interviewed by Terri Gross on “Fresh Air,” her NPR program. When my book The Death and Life of the Great American...
Andrea Gabor: How Big Philanthropy Captured Media Coverage of Their Education Investments
Andrea Gabor is the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism at Baruch College, which is part of the City University of New York. Gabor has written...