Category Archives: Education Fraud

The Malfunction of US Education Policy: Elite Misinformation, Disinformation and Selfishness [book review]

Posted on 04/08/2023 by A.P. Dillon

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, April 2023, 196 pages, ISBN 9781475869941 With scholarly precision, Phelps details the collection of actors that have driven and continue to propel U.S. education policy and preferred narratives. In doing so, he has laid out a … Continue reading →

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Cheating in the Classroom: We all have a choice

Posted on 13/08/2021 by Loretta Breuning

I was naive about cheating as a student, so I was also naive as a professor. Then one day a student complained to me about cheating during my exam. That put me in an awkward position. The culture of my … Continue reading →

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The Sabotage of Public Education

Posted on 18/01/2021 by Bruce Price

By Bruce Deitrick Price Genuine rigorous testing of educational ideas is rare in America. Why? Because practical testing usually goes against what the professors want to do. Their impractical ideas don’t perform well in the real world. For example, Operation … Continue reading →

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K-12 is a land of mystery

Posted on 29/05/2020 by Bruce Price

Bruce Dietrick Price* For those who enjoy a good puzzle, K-12 education is more intellectually entertaining than most people imagine. Classrooms are full of convoluted theories and mystifying methods. Probably the teachers themselves can’t explain the reasoning behind approaches that … Continue reading →

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Keep the Students but Get Rid of Their Bodies — A Practical Response to Educational Super-Inflation

Posted on 12/05/2020 by Robert Oliphant

Count on the Brits to crucify their American cousins in an ECONOMIST article that slams our universities for raising their fees five times as fast as inflation during the last 30 years — a feat of ivory tower trickery that … Continue reading →

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Who’s Telling the Truth about Alabama’s Constitutional Amendment One?

Posted on 01/03/2020 by Betty Peters

As a former member of the Alabama State School Board (2003-2019), I would like to share my concerns about the ballot language for Amendment One. When voters get a ballot on March 3, this is all that is printed in … Continue reading →

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Richard Phelps: Is our education system failing us? Critically Speaking

Posted on 25/07/2019 by Richard P Phelps

CriticallySpeak @CritiSpeak https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/013-dr-richard-phelps-is-our-education-system-failing-us/id1463016517?i=1000445232433 K12 is in trouble! Johnny can’t read, write or do arithmetic, even with a college degree. Interview with Dr. Richard Phelps CriticallySpeaking podcast ‎Critically Speaking on Apple Podcasts ‎@@string1@@ · 2019 podcasts.apple.com

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There’s A Deeper Systemic Problem in the College Admissions Scandal No One Is Talking About

Posted on 14/04/2019 by Richard P Phelps
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Nation’s Report Card: Common Core delivering education stagnation

Posted on 12/04/2018 by Richard P Phelps

https://ivn.us/2018/04/11/nations-report-card-common-core-delivering-education-stagnation/ …at the Independent Voter Network website, https://IVN.us

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New in the Nonpartisan Education Review: Dan Koretz’s Big Con

Posted on 26/11/2017 by Richard P Phelps

The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better, by Daniel Koretz [book review] Reviewed by Richard P. Phelps http://nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Reviews/v13n1.htm

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Does Common Core add up for California’s math students?*

Posted on 10/09/2016 by Wayne Bishop

As this public school year begins, districts across California are reporting student performance on new exams based on California’s adaptation of the controversial Common Core federal standards. Students and parents have good reason to be anxious about the newly released … Continue reading →

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Trickle Down Academic Elitism

Posted on 31/10/2015 by Will Fitzhugh

When [mid-20th century] I was in a private school in Northern California, I won a “gold” medal for first place in a track meet of the Private School Conference of Northern California for the high jump [5’6”]—which I thought was … Continue reading →

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Wayne Bishop’s observations on the Aspen Ideas Festival session, “Is Math Important?”

Posted on 19/07/2015 by Wayne Bishop

Editors’ Note: David Leonhardt is Washington Bureau Chief for the New York Times, won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on economic issues, and majored in applied mathematics as an undergraduate at Yale. Mr. Leonhardt chaired the panel, “Deep Dive: … Continue reading →

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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”

Posted on 17/05/2015 by Erich Martel

Mayor, Council Members, State Board of Education Members, This is assigned reading.  It’s time to take off the rose colored glasses and stop the routine affirmations of “I support education reform” without looking past the polished press releases.  Please stop … Continue reading →

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