All Content (in reverse chronological order)
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2018 (Volume 14):
- 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)
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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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Stotsky, Summary of and Comments on the Middle School Mathematics Initiative (resource)
- 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)
Special Section: District of Columbia Public Education Documents: Agreements, Audits, Reports, Requests, etc.:
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2016 (Volume 12):
- Price, Critical Thinking: Not all that critical (essay)
- Phelps, Interview with Jim Zellmer of Schoolinfosystem.org (testimonial)
- Phelps, Teaching to the test: A very large red herring (essay)
- Stotsky, Michigan Senate Bill 826: Replace Common Core with pre-2011 Massachusetts Standards (resource)
- Phelps, Dismissive Reviews in Education Policy Research - A List (resource)
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2015 (Volume 11):
- 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)
- 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)
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2014 (Volume 10):
- Akin, In Defense of "Mindless Rote" (resource)
- Solo, The Un-Making of an Extraordinary School (testimonial)
- 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)
- 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)
- Martinez, Tost, Hilgert, Woodard-Meyers, Gang Membership Risk Factors for
Eighth-Grade Students (article)
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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)
- 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)
- Phelps, The Rot Spreads Overseas: OECD - Taken In and Taking Sides (resource)
- McNee, Why Billy Can't Read (book)
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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) # The ethereal world of celebrity education research (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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