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This is the blog of Nonpartisan Education Review board members. Quoting from the Review‘s “About Us” page: “There are two sides to every U.S. education policy debate …and that is the problem. “Those...
View ArticleThe OECD meets to discuss assessment
The OECD meets to discuss assessment, Open minds on assessment policy likely not invited http://congrex.no/oecdoslo2013/ A hoodwinked OECD is one result of our profession’s tolerance of censorship and...
View ArticleCampbell’s Law is like Campbell’s Soup
Campbell’s Law is like Campbell’s Soup: Ubiquitous and Innocuous You became familiar with Campbell’s Law when only a few days old and by age two had mastered it. As a parent, you would have witnessed...
View ArticleTry Trying
Educator testing scandals have lit up the news wires recently and some call the cheating unprecedented. It is not unprecedented; journalists simply paid little attention to the issue before now. To my...
View ArticleGAO Could Do More
U.S. GAO Could Do More in Examining Educator Cheating on Tests The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a research agency of the U.S. Congress, continues its foray into the field of...
View ArticleMajor Players
Will Fitzhugh The Concord Review 3 September 2013 Who are the Most Important Players in U.S. education debates, and in our schools? Well, let’s see—there are EduPundits, legislators, governors,...
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DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION Will Fitzhugh The Concord Review 7 February 2013 “We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”—George Orwell...
View ArticleLarge-scale educational testing in Chile: Some thoughts
Recently in the auditorium of Universidad Finis Terrae, I argued that Chile’s Prueba de Selección Universitaria (PSU) cannot be “fixed” and should be scrapped. I do not, however, advocate the...
View ArticleNational Study of Learning, Voting, & Engagement
The National Study of Learning, Voting, & Engagement (NSLVE) is a new, national research initiative that gives colleges and universities an opportunity to learn the aggregate registration and...
View ArticleThe Gauntlet: How think tanks and federally-funded centers misrepresent and...
New in the Nonpartisan Education Review: http://nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Essays/v10n1.htm The aggressive, career-strategic behavior of researchers in federally funded centers and think tanks...
View ArticlePress Release: Study Finds Common Core Math Standards Will Reduce Enrollment...
http://pioneerinstitute.org/download/study-finds-common-core-math-standards-will-reduce-enrollment-in-high-level-high-school-math-courses-dumb-down-college-stem-curriculum/ BOSTON – Common Core math...
View ArticleRichard Innes’ Georgia testimony on Common Core
Testimony to Georgia House’s Federal Government’s Role in Education Study Committee Regarding: Common Core State Standards and Related Testing Issues Posted on August 21, 2014 by Richard Innes New in...
View ArticleKamenetz, A. (2015). The Test: Why our schools are obsessed with standardized...
Perhaps it is because I avoid most tabloid journalism that I found journalist Anya Kamenetz’s loose cannon Introduction to The Test: Why our schools are obsessed with standardized testing—but you don’t...
View ArticleOvertesting or Overcounting?
Commenting on the Center for American Progress’s (CAP’s) report, Testing Overload in America’s Schools,...
View ArticleUsing middle schoolers for anti-testing advocacy?
Superintendent Mark D. LaRoach Vestal School District, New York Dear Superintendent LaRoach: I conduct research on the effects of standardized testing on student achievement. I have read over 3...
View ArticleNo Child Left Behind Renewal: Blinders on the Education Policy Horse
Two weeks ago, The Honorable Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) invited three allegedly independent education researchers...
View ArticleSelling ‘Performance’ Assessments with Inaccurate Pictures from Kentucky
By Richard Innes, new in the Nonpartisan Education Review. See more at: http://nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Articles/v11n1.htm#sthash.mGQ6Mqbh.dpuf
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Robert T. Oliphant, 1924-2014
Robert T. Oliphant 1924-2014 Bob Oliphant passed away in June, 2014. He was one of the most optimistic and generous people I’ve ever met, and one of my best friends. That despite the fact that we...
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Tom Oakland, 1939-2015
Thomas D. Oakland, 1939-2015 Tom Oakland epitomized the gentleman scholar. He was a world-renowned expert in educational assessment and evaluation–one of the best. He was also a tireless supporter of...
View ArticleStarting school already behind
Underprivileged students start first grade already two grade levels behind more privileged students. The obvious solution to this discrepancy is to give the underprivileged kids more time, as in...
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