Getting Real About Turnarounds
The turnaround approach assumes that it is bad principals and bad teachers who stand in the way of school improvement. Read Full Post >
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February 07, 2012
January 31, 2012
Does President Obama Know What Race to the Top Is?
Do you think that President Obama just doesn't understand that Race to the Top has encouraged states to double down on high-stakes testing? Maybe he doesn't realize that the strategies of his administration rely totally on test scores. Read Full Post >
January 10, 2012
NCLB: The Death Star of American Education
After 10 years of NCLB, we should have seen dramatic progress on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, but we have not. Read Full Post >
October 26, 2011
NCLB: End It, Don't Mend It
Despite the manifest failure of NCLB, the Obama administration proposes not to scrap it, but to offer waivers if states agree to accept the mandates selected by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Read Full Post >
October 18, 2011
If You Believe in Miracles, Don't Read This
But as long as public officials insist on making test scores the measure of teacher quality and school success, then their claims should be closely scrutinized using the metrics that they themselves have made the coin of the realm. Many of the schools that politicians hail as successes have records no different from other schools that the politicians are closing. Read Full Post >
June 28, 2011
Reasons for Hope
Now is a time to speak and act. Now is a time to think about how we will one day be judged. Not by test scores, not by data, but by the consequences of our actions. Read Full Post >
June 21, 2011
Why I Am Marching on July 30
I will be marching with the Save Our Schools coalition of teachers and parents on July 30 in Washington, D.C. I know you will be, too. I hope we are joined by many thousands of concerned citizens who want to save our schools from the bad ideas and bad policies now harming them. Read Full Post >
May 31, 2011
A Dark Day in New York State
This isn't an argument against holding teachers accountable; it's an argument against holding them accountable for the wrong things and in a way that will result in very negative unintended consequences. Read Full Post >
April 26, 2011
Social Norms Beat Market Norms
Curiously, the corporate reform movement likes to talk about data-driven decisions, but they ignore any data that doesn't support what they want to do. For example, when the Vanderbilt study of merit pay was published, the U.S. Department of Education immediately released nearly $500 million for—what else—more merit-pay programs, and promised that another $500 million would be forthcoming. Read Full Post >
April 05, 2011
The Texas Miracle Revisited
But what we now know is that there never was a Texas miracle. At best, it was wishful thinking. At worst, it was a lie. Read Full Post >
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