Category Archives: Education journalism

Comments on Zearn’s “Myth of the Math Kid”

Posted on 15/08/2024 by Joye Walker

https://time.com/7008332/math-kid-myth-essay/ I really find these kinds of articles tiresome, because the accusations or “myths” as expressed by Shalinee Sharma, are assumptions made by people who are generalizing about all math teaching in order to peddle their programs. The first myth … Continue reading →

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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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Mississippi: Progress Commanding Attention or Outright Miracle?

Posted on 18/07/2023 by Richard Innes

Due to comments from others about Mississippi, I thought it would be useful to post a short message with some of the data I have been looking at recently that tells me while Mississippi’s educational improvements are not in the … Continue reading →

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The High Price of the Education Writers Association’s News

Posted on 28/03/2023 by Richard P Phelps

EWA’s Form 990 tax filings to the IRS for the five tax years 2015 to 2019 reveal the following: Tax Year | Membership Dues ($000s) | Contributions (gifts, grants, etc.) ($000s)2015 | 19.2 | 2,797.82016 | 20.6 | 3,419.62017 | … Continue reading →

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The Malfunction of US Education Policy: Elite Misinformation, Disinformation, and Selfishness

Posted on 25/03/2023 by Richard P Phelps

Looks like ebook/kindle version is now available. “Look Inside” feature on Amazon shows Preface and Intro. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-malfunction-of-us-education-policy-richard-p-phelps-founder-of-nonpartisan-education-review-author-and-editor-of-correcting-fallacies-about-educa/1142557816 https://www.amazon.com/Malfunction-Education-Policy-Misinformation-Disinformation/dp/1475869940/

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Response to John Merrow’s advocacy of Project-based Learning

Posted on 06/02/2020 by Erich Martel

John Merrow has started a series of posts advocating project based learning. I just posted the following to his website: Project-Based Learning, part two John, It’s disappointing to see you disparaging the teaching of factual information: “I also endorsed project-based learning … Continue reading →

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The Hechinger Report on college admission testing

Posted on 13/10/2019 by Richard P Phelps

Like most education-focused news outlets, the Hechinger Report claims that it “provides in-depth, fact-based, unbiased reporting.” Yet, somehow, it usually ends up dishing the same old formulaic propaganda supportive of education insiders. Their October 9 story, “Questioning their fairness, a … Continue reading →

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Beware New Quality Counts State Rankings

Posted on 05/09/2019 by Richard Innes

Education Week just released the final segment on its 2019 ranking of state education systems, and it is unfortunate that this generally pretty good news outlet continues to mess this up. Point of Order: I just ranked Kentucky’ s All … Continue reading →

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Back to school means education news stories …for a while

Posted on 29/08/2019 by Richard P Phelps

It’s that time of year again. As millions of youngsters return to school, thousands of journalists cast about for a once-a-year education-themed story. As one might expect with such sporadic attention, many of the August/September stories will be light and … Continue reading →

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New “science and society” podcast

Posted on 24/06/2019 by Richard P Phelps

ANNOUNCING: Critically Speaking, a new podcast series hosted by Therese Markow, who writes:       ” … we separate facts from fallacies at the intersection of science and society. “Every day we make decisions that affect our own lives, … Continue reading →

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Keeping Journalists in the Dark: ‘Citation Cartels’ Limit Public Knowledge

Posted on 17/05/2019 by Richard P Phelps

Keeping Journalists in the Dark: ‘Citation Cartels’ Limit Public Knowledge The public relies on journalists to learn about and share academic research. Public knowledge can be undermined, however, when academics try to influence what research journalists cover or limit the … Continue reading →

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The elitist strain in US education journalism

Posted on 05/05/2019 by Richard P Phelps

Some years ago, during the heat of a presidential campaign I assembled some policy-relevant and time-sensitive research on the top education policy topic of the day. I could have published the work myself as, it so happens, I ended up … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 30/11/2018 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 31/08/2018 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 02/12/2017 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 26/11/2017 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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The Gates Effect: Common Core Has Powerful Ally Keeping Unpopular Program Alive

Posted on 16/09/2017 by Richard P Phelps

https://ivn.us/2017/09/06/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 02/01/2017 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 10/08/2016 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 16/07/2016 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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