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Thomas D. Oakland
1939-2015
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Robert T. Oliphant
1924-2014
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Mary Lyn Bourque
1937-2016
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Martin V.L. Turner
1948-2010
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Ralph Raimi
1924-2017
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Pat Naughtin
1946-2011
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For laughs:
The Onion on multiple intelligences.
George Carlin Child Worship (video).
McSweeney's We, the Hard-Working, Newly Homeschooling Parents of America, Have Rewritten the Common Core Standards.
The Onion Chinese third-graders falling behind US high school students in math, science.
Key and Peele, TeachingCenter (video).
The Simpsons, How the Test Was Won (video)
The Onion More American 5th-graders taking gap year to unwind before middle school.
Mallard Fillmore on learning how to learn.
Saturday Night Live Common Knowledge.
Onion Television studio panel, on standardized testing bias (video).
Doonesbury on the Asian edge 2.
Doonesbury on the Asian edge 1.
The Onion on-the-street survey on standardized testing bias.
Mallard Fillmore on the new SAT.
The Onion opinion poll, Should we abolish the SAT exam?.
Tom Lehrer New Math [video].
The Onion Most high school graduates woefully unprepared for high school.
R.P. Phelps if certain education theorists trained Olympic athletes.
The Onion 10th-grade prodigy studying mathematics at a 10th-grade level.
Mark Phillips Down the rabbit hole of education reform
The Onion New department of education study finds increasing instruction in internet use negates need for sex-education classes.
R.P. Phelps Standardized testing, regrettable food, urine therapy, and trichotillomania.
The Onion on mathematics achievement.
Big Nate on homework.
The Onion on constructivism.
skule nite 1t2 "one test more" engineering musical flashmob U. Toronto (video).
The Onion Initiative replaces curriculum with a test.
Tom Lehrer Elements [video].
The Onion on-the-street survey on college education's payoff.
Danziger on US math instruction.
The Onion on college education's pay-in.
Doonesbury on the US' high achieving students.
The Onion Everyone still remembers the time you threw up in 5th grade.
The Colbert Report The Colbert Report on Common Core Confusion.
The Onion The Pros and Cons of Standardized Testing.
Mallard Fillmore on the Common Core standards.
The Onion Tips for last-minute test cramming.
George Carlin George Carlin on Students and Parents, Phone Calls, Bluetooth.....
Grinding Gears
Enseignement Explicite et Constructivisme
The Onion Oh God, teacher arranged desks in giant circle.
Comedian Nate Bargatze jokes about coughing in public and Common Core math.
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All Content (in reverse chronological order)
2020 (Volume 16):
- Byrne, Comments of Mary Byrne to Springfield, MO public schools board on critical race theory (blog post)
- 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)
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)
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)
Special Section: Phelps, Common Core Collaborators: Six Organizational Portraits
- 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)
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)
Special Section: District of Columbia Public Education Documents: Agreements, Audits, Reports, Requests, etc.:
- 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)
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)
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)
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)
Special Section: The Common Core Dissenters:
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:
- 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)
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)
Point-Counterpoint: Educators, Cheating, & Testing Standards:
- 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)
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
lesrésultats 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)
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)
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
Resources
Archives:
- 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
Nonpartisan Education Review Board Members on Standards, Curriculum
and Instruction, Censorship and Transparency
Standards:
Curriculum and
Instruction:
Censorship and Transparency [or,
the lack thereof]
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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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