Monthly Archives: May 2016

Some Common Core Salespersons’ Salaries: DC Edu-Blob-ulants

Posted on 21/05/2016 by Richard P Phelps

Linked are copies of Form 990s for Marc Tucker’s National Center for Education and the Economy (NCEE), Checker Finn’s Fordham Foundation and Fordham Institute, and Bob Wise’s Alliance for Excellent Education (AEE). Each pays himself and at least one other … Continue reading →

Posted in Common Core, Education policy, Education Reform, Ethics, research ethics | Tagged Achieve, Alliance for Excellent Education, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bob Wise, CCSSO, Checker Finn, common core, education reporting, Fordham Institute, Marc Tucker, Mike Petrilli, NCEE, NGA, SBAC, Thomas B. Fordham | 1 Comment

Censorship at Education Next

Posted on 20/05/2016 by Richard P Phelps

In response to their recent misleading articles about a fall 2015 Mathematica report that claims to (but does not) find predictive validity for the PARCC test with Massachusetts college students, I wrote the text below and submitted it to EdNext … Continue reading →

Posted in Censorship, College prep, Common Core, Education journalism, Ethics, information suppression, K-12, research ethics, Richard P. Phelps, Testing/Assessment | Tagged censorship, information suppression | Leave a comment

Hard Work by Students

Posted on 19/05/2016 by Will Fitzhugh

In my ten years of HS teaching I saw good (hard-working, interested in learning) students do well with good teachers, and ALSO do pretty well with poor teachers… I saw poor (not working, not interested in learning) students do poorly … Continue reading →

Posted in Education policy, Education Reform, research ethics, Will Fitzhugh | Tagged education, education research, learning, schools, student achievement, students, teachers | Leave a comment

The Education Writers Association casts its narrowing gaze on Boston, May 1-3

Posted on 01/05/2016 by Richard P Phelps

https://pioneerinstitute.org/featured/the-education-writers-association-casts-its-narrowing-gaze-on-boston-may-1-3/ Billions have been spent, and continue to be spent, promoting the Common Core Standards and their associated consortium tests, PARCC and SBAC. Nonetheless, the “Initiative” has been stopped in its tracks largely by a loose coalition of unpaid grassroots … Continue reading →