RESOURCES - Nonpartisan Education Review

Resources (Instructional or Reference Materials, Presentations, Working Papers)

2022:
Special Section: Phelps: Appendices for forthcoming book, The Malfunction of U.S. Education Policy: Elite Misinformation, Disinformation, and Selfishness (resources)
• 1.The Enablers (pdf)
• 2.Sources of Citations in C. C. Ross's Measurement in Today's Schools (pdf)
• 3.Research Literatures Dismissed, by Scholar or Media: Some Examples (pdf)
• 4.Pack Funders and Strategic Partners: Some Examples (pdf)
• 5.Comparing Two Testing Effects Literature Searches (pdf)
• 6.Bellwether's Web of Organizational Links (pdf)
• 7.Career Paths of the Permanent Education Press (pdf)
• 8.Media Expert Source Counts (pdf)
• 9.Michael Petrilli's Compliments and Expertise (pdf)
• 10.Expert Sources of Journalists Barnum and Barshay (pdf)
• 11.The Education Writers Association: Then and now (pdf)
• References (pdf)

Also relevant:

• Dismissive Reviews and Citation Cartels in Education Policy Research – A List

2021:
• Huang, Jo Boaler's Fame, Stanford's Shame; Students' Gloom, America's Doom: Part 1 (pdf) (resource)
• Huang, Jo Boaler's Fame, Stanford's Shame; Students' Gloom, America's Doom: Part 2 (pdf) (resource)
• Huang, Jo Boaler's Fame, Stanford's Shame; Students' Gloom, America's Doom: Part 3 (pdf) (resource)

2020:
• Innes, Preserving History, Problems with Kentucky's Social Studies Standards, Must be Redone (pdf) (resource)
• Milgram & Bishop, Letters from mathematicians R.James Milgram (Jim) and Wayne Bishop to a parent of the Palo Alto School District, California, 2016-2018 (pdf)
• Stotsky, How to Clean Up the Common Core Mess in Massachusetts
• Nelson, Addressing Math Deficits to Improve Chemistry Success (pdf)
• Huang, Jo Boaler's Math Reform Fallacy

2019:
• Massachusetts Department of Education, Mathematics and Science Courses Required or Recommended for Admission into Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs at Massachusetts Institutions of Higher Education (2003)
• Stotsky, How to Honor the English Curriculum and the Study of U.S. History: A Response to Concerns Expressed by Teachers at a California Conference

2018:
• Dancis, Exceptional Learning Results From Exceptionally Good Textbooks: Singapore Yes! Finland No!
• Martel, DCPS closes 15 schools in 2013: Parents' lawsuit yields >18,000 pages of internal DCPS emails and emails between DCPS managers and foundation donors relating to the closure. They reveal much more about the relationship between foundation donors and DCPS managers that the public rarely sees.
• Stotsky, How a State Could Establish Standards Development Committees to Replace Common Core. (doc)
• Furst, Retrieval Practice: The roads between research and practice
• Zuti & Lukovics, Fourth Generation Universities and Regional Development

2017:
• Dancis, 6 Simple Ways to Improve Education in Maryland
• Milgram, R. James Milgram on the Common Core in Indiana
• Stotsky, An English Language Arts Curriculum Framework for American Public Schools: A Model
• Martel, How Making the Graduation Rate into a School Performance Measure Undermined Teaching and Learning: Descriptions, Analysis, Accounts
• DCPS & Walton Foundation, Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Washington, D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) and the Walton Family Foundation (WFF), August 31, 2011 (resource: DCPS agrees to provide 10 years of student achievement data to the WFF in return for its $25 million investment in teacher bonuses and excessing)
• Martel, Documents Related to DCPS Altered Student Records
• Stotsky, Summary of and Comments on the Middle School Mathematics Initiative
• Martel, The GAO Report on DC Charter Schools' Suspension Rates

2016:
• Stotsky, Michigan Senate Bill 826: Replace Common Core with pre-2011 Massachusetts Standards
• Phelps, Dismissive Reviews in Education Policy Research - A List

2014:
• Akin, In Defense of "Mindless Rote" (pdf)

2013:
• Stotsky, Why We Must Raise the Bar for Admission to an Education School (pdf)
• Stotsky, Testimony for a Hearing in Arkansas for HB 1590 (pdf)
• Phelps, The Rot Spreads Overseas: OECD - Taken In and Taking Sides
• McNee, Why Billy Can't Read (pdf)

2012:
• Phelps, The Effect of Testing on Student Achievement: 1910-2010 (slide show)
• Phelps, L'effet de tests standardisés sur les résultats scolaires des élèves : 1910-2010 (slide show)
• Martel, DC Public Schools Fail to Meet Performance Requirements of 4 Foundation Grants
• Dancis, K-12 "Pretend Mathematics" Curriculum Produces Freshmen Who Know Less Algebra
• Dancis, All Teachers Can Learn Mathematics; All Students Can Learn Mathematics From Teachers Who Know Mathematics

2011:
• Oliphant, Standard Worldwide American Dictionary English versus Polyglot America: A Survival Kit for Personal-Growth Learners (book)
• Phelps, The Effect of Testing on Achievement: Meta-Analyses and Research Summary, 1910–2010: Source List, Effect Sizes, and References for Quantitative Studies
• Phelps, The Effect of Testing on Achievement: Meta-Analyses and Research Summary, 1910–2010: Source List, Effect Sizes, and References for Survey Studies
• Phelps, The Effect of Testing on Achievement: Meta-Analyses and Research Summary, 1910–2010: Source List, Effect Sizes, and References for Qualitative Studies
• Oliphant, Learning the Lord's Prayer in Gothic: A Personal Best Achievement for American High School Students

2010:
• Klein, What Do the NAEP Math Tests Really Measure? (article preprint)
• Oliphant, AlzHope: A Multi-volume eBook Confidence Builder for Alzheimer’s Worriers (book)
• Phelps, The Effect of Testing on Student Achievement: Meta-analyses and Summary of the Research (slide show)
• Phelps. L'effet de tests standardisés sur les résultats scolaires des élèves : Méta-analyses et résumé de la recherche (slide show)
• Oliphant, BigVocab: A Dictionary-based Guide to Metrologically Authoritative Vocabulary Testing and Learning (book)
• Oliphant, Speak Sharp: How to Be an Effective User of Standard Worldwide American Pronunciation English (book)
• Oliphant, Recitation Whiz: A Structural Method for Memorizing Poems and Other Texts (book)
[Review copies of Robert Oliphant's RecitationWhiz® — A Structural System for Memorizing Poems and Other Texts (116 pp) are now available from the Nonpartisan Education Group via nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Resources/RecitationWhiz.pdf. Oliphant's recent books include Shakespeare in the Head and WordEdge, both available from Nonpartisan Education Group. He is a WWII Army Air Corps veteran, a Stanford PhD, a columnist for Education News.org., and the author of numerous articles and books, including the bestseller A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (Reader's Digest USA, Canada, and Australia, which was also an award winning Bette Davis film (Monte Carlo), under the same title that is still being shown to multi-lingual audiences worldwide.]

2009:
• Stotsky, Teacher Licensing Standards, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement in Urban Schools (pdf)
• Oliphant, Shakespeare in the Head for Health: A Reality Orientation Option for Alzheimer's Worriers (book)
[Robert Oliphant's "Shakespeare in the Head for Health" (282 pp.) offers Alzheimer's worriers scientifically authoritative help with its three most visible symptoms: going blank on names, groping for words, and loss of concentration (e.g., "what were we just talking about?"). Its authority stems directly from the self-testing Reality Orientation system developed by VA hospitals for use with WWII veterans, much of which is described in the author's "A Piano for Mrs. Cimino" (Reader's Digest USA, Canada, and Australia), whose multi-lingual movie version (same title), starring Bette Davis, is still being shown worldwide. . . . At a time when pharmaceutical remedies are feared and mistrusted and when, according to the Harris Poll, over 50% of us now worry more about Alzheimer's than about stroke, heart attacks, or diabetes, "Shakespeare in the Head for Health" represents an alternative and a challenge that deserves to be taken seriously by every American over fifty.]
• Phelps, Worse than Plagiarism? Firstness Claims & Dismissive Reviews (slide show)
• Oliphant, WordEdge: A Career Mobility Guide to High Speed Dictionary-Based Electronic Learning and Testing, (book)

2008:
• Stotsky, Suggested Indices of Teacher Quality for Arkansas: A Position Paper (pdf)

2007:
• Oliphant, An Access-Dictionary of Internationalist High Tech Latinate English (book)
• Phelps, The Source of Lake Wobegon (slide show)
• Naughtin, Approaches to Metrication # Metrication - Who is Responsible # USA Decimilisation and Metrication (essays)
• Oliphant, Dictionary Based Learning The Personal-Best Route to Vocabulary Power, Reading Comprehension, and High Stakes Test Taking Success (book)
  

2005:
• Stotsky, Why Reading Teachers Are Not Trained to Use a Research-Based Pedagogy: Is Institutional Reform Possible? (doc)