Category Archives: Education journalism

Letter to NPR’s Ari Shapiro and producers of their “individualized learning” podcast

Posted on 30 November, 2018 by Erich Martel

From: Erich Martel Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2018 To: ‘mediarelations@npr.org’ Dear Ari Shapiro and Individualized Learning (and Project Based Learning) Podcast Producers, I want to make three points re “Individualized Learning” and all claims pertaining to education: 1) Always look … Continue reading →

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Common Core Collaborators: Six Organizational Portraits

Posted on 31 August, 2018 by Richard P Phelps

New in the Nonpartisan Education Review: https://nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Articles/CommonCoreCollaborators.htm Phelps, R. P. (2018). Common Core Collaborators: Six Organizational Portraits. Nonpartisan Education Review/Articles, 14(3–7). – The Organization Named Achieve: Cradle of Common Core Cronyism – The Council of Chief State School Officers and … Continue reading →

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What I learned at the ResearchED (US) Media Panel

Posted on 2 December, 2017 by Richard P Phelps

For those still unfamiliar with it, ResearchED is “a grass-roots, teacher led organisation” founded in the UK whose mission is to “raise research literacy, bring people together, promote collaboration, increase awareness, promote research, and explore what works.” It has also … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 26 November, 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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researchED, Brooklyn, 7 October, 2017

Posted on 18 September, 2017 by Richard P Phelps

researchED New York 2017  

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The Gates Effect: Common Core Has Powerful Ally Keeping Unpopular Program Alive

Posted on 16 September, 2017 by Richard P Phelps

The Gates Effect: Common Core Has Powerful Ally Keeping Unpopular Program Alive …at the Independent Voter Network website, https://IVN.US .

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Significance of PISA math results

Posted on 2 January, 2017 by Wayne Bishop

A new round of two international comparisons of student mathematics performance came out recently and there was a lot of interest because the reports were almost simultaneous, TIMSS[1] in late November 2016 and PISA[2] just a week later. They are … Continue reading →

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John Hopkins flawed report on Kentucky

Posted on 10 August, 2016 by Richard Innes

It looks like a recent, very problematic report from Johns Hopkins University, “For All Kids, How Kentucky is Closing the High School Graduation Gap for Low-Income Students,” is likely to get pushed well beyond the Bluegrass State’s borders. The publishers … Continue reading →

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101 Terms for Denigrating Others’ Research

Posted on 16 July, 2016 by Richard P Phelps

In scholarly terms, a review of the literature or literature review is a summation of the previous research conducted on a particular topic. With a dismissive literature review, a researcher assures the public that no one has yet studied a … Continue reading →

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Censorship at Education Next

Posted on 20 May, 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 →

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

Posted on 1 May, 2016 by Richard P Phelps

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 … Continue reading →

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