All Content (in reverse chronological order)
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2020 (Volume 16):
- Innes, Preserving History, Problems with Kentucky's Social Studies Standards, Must be Redone (pdf) (resource)
- Price, K–12: The Life and Death of the Mind (blog post)
- Stotsky, Hoping for a Stronger Focus on Public Education after November 3, 2020 (blog post)
- Huang, Jo Boaler's Reform Math Fallacy Outline (blog post)
- Phelps, A Critical Review of "Getting Tough? The Impact of High School Graduation Exams" (review)
- Oliphant, Middle-School Winners: Why American Middle-School Students Should Take the International Graduate Record Exam Seriously (article)
- Fitzhugh, Academic Fitness (blog post)
- Huang, Breaking the Spell of Math Reformists (blog post)
- 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) (resource) Special Section: Phelps, Looking Back on DC Education Reform 10 Years After (testimonial)
- Stotsky, How to Clean Up the Common Core Mess in Massachusetts (resource)
- Stotsky, Here's how Idaho can develop academically strong ELA and Mathematics Standards when it revises its current standards (blog post)
- Nelson, Addressing Math Deficits to Improve Chemistry Success (pdf) (resource)
- Price, K-12 is a Land of Mystery (blog post)
- Oliphant, Keep the Students but Get Rid of Their Bodies -- A Practical Response to Educational Super-Inflation (blog post)
- Peters, Who's Telling the Truth about Alabama's Constitutional Amendment One? (blog post)
- Martel, Response to John Merrow's advocacy of Project-based Learning (blog post)
- Huang, Jo Boaler's Math Reform Fallacy (resource)
- Huang, Why Have American Schools Failed in Closing the Achievement Gap? A Case Study of California's Palo Alto School District (testimonial)
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2019 (Volume 15):
- Ligon, Test Critics Fail the Test: Critics of Testing Don't Understand the Basics of Testing (article)
- Martinez, Romanian officials' nonchalant reaction to 2018 PISA results (blog post)
- Stotsky, Why Were my Last Four Books Necessary? (essay)
- Phelps, The Hechinger Report on College Admission Testing (blog post)
- Phelps, Back to school means education news stories ...for a while (blog post)
- Martel, Persian Gulf tensions recall a previous "gulf" crisis: The Tonkin Gulf Resolution (blog post)
- Stotsky, Should we switch from mandated "standardized" tests to mandated "performance" tests? (blog post)
- Phelps, A Decade in the Paranoid World of US Education Research, Part 1: The Scoldings (article)
- 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) (resource)
- Hayes, Review of DIVE online math and science school program (program review)
- Stotsky, How To Become Secretary of Education Without Really Doing Anything (book review)
- 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 (presentation)
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2018 (Volume 14):
- Dancis, Exceptional Learning Results From Exceptionally Good Textbooks: Singapore Yes! Finland No! (presentation)
- Wilson, Advanced Placement Calculus is not College Calculus (essay)
- Martel, Letter to NPR's Ari Shapiro and producers of their "individualized learning" podcast (blog post)
- The Organization Named Achieve: Cradle of Common Core Cronyism
- The Council of Chief State School Officers and National Governors Association: Whom do they serve?
- Real Clear Propaganda: Bellwether's Education News Bias
- The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and Institute: Influence for Hire
- Does College Board Deserve Public Subsidies?
- Martel, DCPS closes 15 schools in 2013: Parents' lawsuit yields over 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. (resource)
- Stamm, The Illusion of Rigor (essay)
- Peters, My letter to Bill Gates on how to prepare students for algebra (blog post)
- Phelps, What the Show Me Institute will not show us (essay)
- Martel, DC's Friendship Collegiate Charter HS's CEO released three redacted student transcripts. On each one, courses required for graduation are missing and many courses show credit values that were inflated. (article)
- Stotsky, Who watches the watchmen? Transparency might guard the integrity of the tests given by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (essay)
- Furst, Retrieval Practice: The roads between research and practice (presentation)
- Zuti & Lukovics, Fourth Generation Universities and Regional Development (presentation & article)
- Stotsky, Is Common Core Racist? Check Out The Results (essay)
Special Section: Phelps, Common Core Collaborators: Six Organizational Portraits
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2017 (Volume 13):
- Phelps, Dan Koretz's Big Con (book review)
- Dancis, 6 Simple Ways to Improve Education in Maryland (resource)
- Phelps, What I learned at the ResearchED (US) Media Panel (blog post)
- Dancis, Fewer Students Learning Arithmetic and Algebra (blog post)
- Milgram, R. James Milgram on the Common Core in Indiana (resource)
- Stotsky, An English Language Arts Curriculum Framework for American Public Schools: A Model (resource)
- Nelson, Cognitive Science and the Common Core Mathematics Standards (article)
- Phelps, Close all USED-funded research centers: Evaluation of existing regulations: My two bits (blog post)
- Cannell, Nationally Normed Elementary Achievement Testing in America's Public Schools: How All Fifty States are Above the National Average (book)
- Martel, How Making the Graduation Rate into a School Performance Measure Undermined Teaching and Learning: Descriptions, Analysis, Accounts (resource)
- Fitzhugh, Students Last (blog post)
- Stotsky, Summary of and Comments on the Middle School Mathematics Initiative (resource)
- Martel, Martin Luther King's non-violence: Personal belief or strategy or both? (blog post)
- Price, Constructivism is a Big Fat Con (essay)
- Ramazanova and Kerimkhanova, Scholarly Prowess or Learned Helplessness? The Case of Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools in Kazakhstan (testimonial)
- 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 (resource)
- Martel, Open Letter to the DC Federal City Council: Transparency in performance metrics needed for all schools, including charters (article)
- Martel, The GAO Report on DC Charter Schools' Suspension Rates (resource)
- Martel, INVESTIGATION REQUEST: Into the process of selecting a Chancellor nominee (or, the DC Public Schools lie with statistics ...again (article)
- Dupre, The Dark Side of Education Reform: Students as Victims and the Destruction of a Manhattan High School (testimonial)
- Bishop, Significance of PISA math results (blog post)
Special Section: District of Columbia Public Education Documents: Agreements, Audits, Reports, Requests, etc.:
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2016 (Volume 12):
- Fitzhugh, A New Core (blog post)
- Phelps, Yes, President Trump can do something about Common Core (blog post)
- Price, Critical Thinking: Not all that critical (essay)
- Phelps, Interview with Jim Zellmer of Schoolinfosystem.org (testimonial)
- Bishop, Does Common Core add up for California's math students?* (blog post)
- Phelps, Among the Constructivists (blog post)
- Innes, John Hopkins flawed report on Kentucky (blog post)
- Phelps, Teaching to the test: A very large red herring (essay)
- Fitzhugh, Hard Work by Students (blog post)
- Phelps, 101 Terms for Denigrating Others' Research (blog post)
- Stotsky, Michigan Senate Bill 826: Replace Common Core with pre-2011 Massachusetts Standards (resource)
- Phelps, Dismissive Reviews in Education Policy Research - A List (resource)
- Stotsky, Peisch Says Repealing Common Core Would Be "Huge Mistake" (blog post)
- Phelps, Fordham Institute's pretend research (blog post)
- Stotsky, How the USED has managed to get it wrong, again (blog post)
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2015 (Volume 11):
- Phelps, Fordham report predictable, conflicted (blog post)
- Fitzhugh, Trickle Down Academic Elitism (blog post)
- Phelps, Common Core's Language Arts (blog post)
- Bishop, Note on Aspen Ideas Festival: Is Math Important? (essay)
- Phelps, Teaching Math in the 21st Century. (book review)
- Stotsky & Holzman, The Costs of Federal Intervention in Local Education: The Effectiveness of America's Choice in Arkansas (article)
- Phelps, David Coleman in Charge (blog post)
- Martel, Jay Mathews: pt 1 of 3 pt Review of Caleb Rossiter's new book: "Aint Nobody Be Learnin' Nothin': The Fraud and the Fix for High Poverty Schools" (blog post)
- Phelps, Starting school already behind (blog post)
- Innes, Selling "Performance" Assessments with Inaccurate Pictures from Kentucky (article)
- Phelps, The Test: Why our schools are obsessed with standardized testing, but you don't have to be. (book review)
- Merrifield, Beware of Test Scores Masquerading as Data (blog post)
- Phelps, Using middle schoolers for anti-testing advocacy? (blog post)
- Phelps, Overtesting or Overcounting? (blog post)
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2014 (Volume 10):
- Bishop, Wayne Bishop's Response to Ratner and Wu (Wall Street Journal) (blog post)
- Fitzhugh, Peer Pressure: Academic Incentives & Rewards for Secondary Students (blog post)
- Akin, In Defense of "Mindless Rote" (resource)
- Fitzhugh, Media Blackout (blog post)
- Solo, The Un-Making of an Extraordinary School (testimonial)
- Fitzhugh, Brief sketch of the problem... (blog post)
- Innes, Testimony to Georgia House's Federal Government's Role in Education Study Committee Regarding: Common Core State Standards and Related Testing Issues (testimonial)
- Bishop, Why Do Americans Stink at Math? Some of the Answer. (article review)
- Fitzhugh, On Writing (blog post)
- Phelps, Large-scale educational testing in Chile: Some thoughts (blog post)
- Phelps, The Gauntlet: Think Tanks and Federal Research Centers Misrepresent and Suppress Other Education Research (essay)
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2013 (Volume
9):
- Oliphant, Chinese-Australian Pronunciation versus Standard American Pronunciation (essay)
- Fitzhugh, Wheelbarrow (blog post)
- Martinez, Tost, Hilgert, Woodard-Meyers, Gang Membership Risk Factors for
Eighth-Grade Students (article)
- Fitzhugh, Driven to Distraction (blog post)
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Special Section: The Common Core Dissenters:
- Milgram, Review of Final Draft Core Standards (review)
- Stotsky, Letter to sponsors (review)
- Wiliam, Comments (review)
- Fitzhugh, Major Players (blog post)
- Quail, Nos Censuimus Igitur Essemus (essay)
- Fitzhugh, Bend it Like Truman (essay)
- Fitzhugh, It's the Students, Stupid! (essay)
- Quirk, The Bogus Research in Kamii and Dominick's Harmful Effects of Algorithms Papers (research review)
- Quirk, The "Parrot Math" Attack on Memorization (research review)
- Stotsky, Literature or Technical Manuals: Who Should Be Teaching What, Where, and Why? (essay)
- Fitzhugh, The College Puzzle (blog post)
- Phelps, The Rot Spreads Overseas: OECD - Taken In and Taking Sides (resource)
- McNee, Why Billy Can't Read (book)
In June 2010, the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers released Reaching Higher: The Common Core State Standards Validation Committee. The committee comprised 28 members, but the report included only 24 signatures. The 4 who did not go along are Alfinio Flores (U. Delaware), R. James Milgram (Stanford U.), Sandra Stotsky (U Arkansas), and Dylan Wiliam (ETS). Professor Flores declined to submit an explanation. But, dissents from Professors Milgram, Stotsky, and Wiliam can be found here:
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2012 (Volume 8):
- Bishop, Clopton, & Milgram, A Close Examination of Jo Boaler’s Railside Report (article)
- Milgram, Private Data – The Real Story: A Huge Problem with Education Research (essay)
- Bishop & Milgram , A Response to Some of the Points of: When Academic Disagreement Becomes Harassment and Persecution (essay)
- Staradamskis, Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us (book review)
- Phelps, Part 1. So Many Secrets
- Phelps, Part 2. The School-Test Publisher Complex
- 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 (resource)
- Oliphant, Recommended Reading: the National Association of Scholars, and the Limits of Consensualism (review)
- Dancis, College Readiness--A Simple Description (essay)
- Dancis, K-12 "Pretend Mathematics" Curriculum Produces Freshmen Who Know Less Algebra (resource)
- Dancis, All Teachers Can Learn Mathematics; All Students Can Learn Mathematics From Teachers Who Know Mathematics (resource)
- Phelps, The Rot Festers: Another National Research Council Report on Testing
Special Section: The Problem of Private Data in Education Research
Special Section: The Secret Document that Drives Standardized Testing
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2011 (Volume 7):
- Ghaemi, The Exploration of Multilingualism: Development of research on L3, multilingualism and multiple language acquisition (book review)
- Dancis, U.S. Government should stop financing arithmetic avoidance (essay)
- Martel, Teaching in a Culture of Fear - the Atlanta Scandal (essay)
- Phelps, Educators cheating on tests is nothing new; Doing something about it would be (essay)
- Oliphant, Modern Metrology and the Revision of our Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (essay)
- Phelps, Extended Comments on the draft Standards for Educational & Psychological Testing (but, in particular, draft chapters 9, 12, & 13) (essay)
- Haladyna, Using Student Tests to Evaluate Teachers - A Very Bad Idea (essay)
- Stamm, Quality versus quantity (essay)
- Oliphant, Standard Worldwide American Dictionary English versus Polyglot America: A Survival Kit for Personal-Growth Learners (book)
- Stamm, The Real Source of Success in Japanese Education (essay)
- Beals, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (book review)
- Phelps, The Effect of Testing on Achievement: Meta-Analyses and Research Summary, 1910–2010: Source List, Effect Sizes, and References for Quantitative Studies (resource)
- Phelps, The Effect of Testing on Achievement: Meta-Analyses and Research Summary, 1910–2010: Source List, Effect Sizes, and References for Survey Studies (resource)
- Phelps, The Effect of Testing on Achievement: Meta-Analyses and Research Summary, 1910–2010: Source List, Effect Sizes, and References for Qualitative Studies (resource)
- Oliphant, Learning the Lord's Prayer in Gothic: A Personal Best Achievement for American High School Students (resource)
Point-Counterpoint: Educators, Cheating, & Testing Standards:
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2010 (Volume 6):
- Stichter, High Stakes Accountability and High School Student Perceptions of Instructional Climate: A Longitudinal Trend Study (article)
- JunkScienceMom, Nothing Fair about the Fair Test Junk Science (essay)
- JunkScienceMom, FairTest's Fishy Finances (essay)
- Stamm, The Common Sense of Copying (essay)
- Oliphant, For-Profit Colleges and American Salesmanship — A Unique Opportunity (essay)
- Oliphant, AlzHope: A Multi-volume eBook Confidence Builder for Alzheimer’s Worriers (book)
- Oliphant, GI Bill Students and Their Equal Opportunity to Fail (essay)
- Oliphant, Sina English and American Dictionaries: A New Partnership (essay)
- Oliphant, Too Clever by Half: The Economist Is Bullying Americans into Intellectual Submission (essay)
- Garelick, Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World (book review)
- Klein, What Do the NAEP Math Tests Really Measure? (resource)
- Phelps, The Source of Lake Wobegon [updated] (article)
- Garelick, The Common Core Math Standards: When Understanding is Overrated (essay)
- Phelps, The Effect of Testing on Student Achievement: Meta-analyses and Summary of the Research (resource)
- Phelps. L'effet de tests standardisés sur les résultats scolaires des élèves : Méta-analyses et résumé de la recherche (resource)
- Oliphant, BigVocab: A Dictionary-based Guide to Metrologically Authoritative Vocabulary Testing and Learning (resource)
- Shawer, The Relationships between EFL Student Cognitive Functioning, Curriculum Diversification and Ethnic Culture Differences (article)
- Rose, Making Education History on the Internet (testimonial)
- Garelick, The Separate Path and the Well Traveled Road (essay)
- Lampley, Graduate Degree Programs: Plain Vanilla, Chocolate Fudge, or a Cherry on Top? (essay)
- Oliphant, Speak Sharp: How to Be an Effective User of Standard Worldwide American Pronunciation English (resource)
- Lampley & Johnson, Mentoring At-risk Youth: Improving Academic Achievement in Middle School Students (article)
- Oliphant, Recitation Whiz: A Structural Method for Memorizing Poems and Other Texts (resource)
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2009 (Volume 5):
- Rasian, Higher Education Governance in Developing Countries, Challenges and Recommendations: Iran as a case study (essay)
- Oliphant, Shakespeare in the Head for Health: A Reality Orientation Option for Alzheimer's Worriers (resource)
- Phelps, Worse than Plagiarism? Firstness Claims & Dismissive Reviews (slide show)(resource)
- Garelick, Discovery learning in math: Exercises versus problems (essay)
- Oliphant, WordEdge: A Career Mobility Guide to High Speed Dictionary-Based Electronic Learning and Testing, (resource)
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2008 (Volume 4):
- Phelps, The Role and Importance of Standardized Testing in the World of Teaching and Training (essay)
- Haider, Challenges in Higher Education: Special Reference to Pakistan and South Asian Developing Countries (essay)
- Oliphant, Should Americans over Fifty Try to Avoid Alzheimer's Disease? A Positive View (essay)
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2007 (Volume 3):
- Klein, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, Mathematics SL (test review)
- Klein, Advanced Placement Calculus AB Evaluation (test review)
- Ligon, Why Eva Baker Doesn't Seem to Understand Accountability: The Politimetrics of Accountability (article)
- Scheuring-Leipold, The thirst for connection: Preparing future teachers for a service profession (testimonial)
- Franco, Reauthorization of NCLB: Time to Reconsider the Scientifically Based Research Requirement (essay)
- Fragale, The Showdown: Challenging students to achieve excellence on state tests (testimonial)
- Kramer, The 25% Solution: Improving Instruction by Improving the NCLB Tests (essay)
- Sireci, Are Educational Tests Inherently Evil? (essay)
- Oliphant, An Access-Dictionary of Internationalist High Tech Latinate English (resource)
- Phelps, The Source of Lake Wobegon (slide show)(resource)
- Naughtin, What is the Cost of Not Going Metric? (essay)
- Scott, When an Intent to Protect becomes a License to Harm (essay)
- Oliphant, Dictionary Based Learning: The Personal-Best Route to Vocabulary Power, Reading Comprehension, and High Stakes Test Taking Success (resource)
- Throne, Distance Learning in Einstein's Fourth Dimension (essay)
- Naughtin, Approaches to Metrication # Metrication - Who is Responsible # USA Decimilisation and Metrication (resources)
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2006 (Volume 2):
- Weathers, The Freshman Grade Academy: A Program to Facilitate the Smooth Transition of Students from the Junior High Learning Environment to the High School Learning Environment (testimonial)
- Fasko, Special Education Services and Response to Intervention: What, Why, and How? (essay)
- Garelick, A Tale of Two Countries and One School District (essay)
- Phelps, A Wonderful African Success Story (testimonial)
- Hambleton, Update on MCAS: Is it Working? Is it Fair? (article)
- Garelick, A Textbook Case in Textbook Adoption (essay)
- Zhang, Eyes Talk (testimonial)
- Honeycutt, Loomis, & Brulle, An Analysis of Merit Pay Reforms (essay)
- Stotsky, Why American Students Do Not Learn to Read Very Well: The Unintended Consequences of Title II and Teacher Testing (article)
Point-Counterpoint: The Lake Wobegon Effect, Twenty Years Later
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2005 (Volume 1):
- Phelps, The Source of Lake Wobegon (article)
- Stotsky, Bradley, & Warren, School-Related Influences on Grade 8 Mathematics Performance in Massachusetts (article)
- Collins, J.V., A Metrical Tragedy
- Driscoll; Berger; Hambleton; Keller; Maloy, Hart, Oh, and Getis; Bowles; Gougeon; McDermott; Churchill, Education Reform: Ten Years after the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993
- Phelps, Dietrich, Phillips, McCormack, Higher Education: An International Perspective (book)
- Phelps, The Achievement Benefits of Standardized Testing # Forty Years of Public Opinion on Standardized Testing # Economic Perspectives on Standardized Testing
- Raimi, Academic Dishonesty in College
- Rogosa, Statistical Blunders by the Proponents and Opponents
of Accountability #
Irrelevance
of Reliability Coefficients to Accountability Systems: Statistical
Disconnect in Kane-Staiger "Volatility in School Test Scores"
Foundational Essays
- Bibliophobia (Fitzhugh) # Review of the Minnesota Academic Standards in Social Studies (Martel) # The Whole Nine Yards (Fitzhugh) # A Review of the "Greene Method" for Calculating Graduation Rates (Phelps) # Luxury or Necessity? Term Papers in U.S. High Schools (Fitzhugh) # Characteristics of an Effective Testing System (Phelps) # High Mediocrity (Fitzhugh) # Dropping the Ball on Dropouts (Phelps) # Know Nothings II (Fitzhugh) # Remarks - AAP Debate on High-stakes Testing (Phelps) # Ready or Not (Fitzhugh) # No Child Left Behind, No Diploma Left Unquestioned - The Social Impact of Standardized Achievement Testing (Oliphant) # Test-basher benefit-cost analysis (Phelps) # Romantic Fiction (Fitzhugh) # A Review of Inside the SAT (Carson) # Double Vision (Fitzhugh) # Raising the Grade: How High School Reform Can Save Our Youth and Our Nation, by Bob Wise [book review] (Phelps)
- Peremptory Challenges (Fitzhugh) # Why Reading Teachers Are Not Trained to use a Research-Based Pedagogy (Stotsky) # Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us, by Daniel Koretz [book review] (Staradamskis) # Trivial Pursuit (Fitzhugh) # High School Size and the Education of All Students in 9-12: What the Research Suggests (Stotsky) # Testing Opponents Relentless in New York City (Carson) # Writing Report (Fitzhugh) # If Certain Education Theorists Trained Olympic Athletes (Phelps) # The State of the Term Paper (Fitzhugh) # Pre-Disaster Educational Planning and Personal-Best Learning (Oliphant) # Multiple Alternatives (Fitzhugh) # Four years of California Mathematics progress (Bishop)
Censorship and Transparency [or, the lack thereof]
- The Dissolution of Education Knowledge (pdf) (Phelps) # Educational Testing Policy: Stuck Between Two Political Parties (Phelps) # Accountability, responsibility and failed student achievement: Who is responsible? Who is accountable? How can it be fixed? [Washington, DC] (Martel) # Censorship Has Many Fathers (Phelps) # School Governance, Academic Accountability, and Student Achievement [Washington, DC] (Martel) # Standardized Testing, Regrettable Food, Urine Therapy, and Trichotillomania (Phelps) # Think Tank Thoughtlessness: A Once-in-a-generation opportunity squandered (Phelps) # Phantom Baccalaureates and the Princeton Review (Oliphant) # Think Tanks, Celebrity Research, and the Dissolution of Education Knowledge (Phelps) # The Rigor of Scientifically-Based Research May be Mortis (Phelps) # High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion, and Graduation, by the National Research Council [book review] (Phelps)
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