Category Archives: Education journalism

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 →

Posted in College prep, Common Core, Education journalism, Education policy, Education Reform, K-12, research ethics, Richard Innes | Tagged Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, common core, graduation, high school diplomas, Johns Hopkins University, Kentucky | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Censorship, Education journalism, Education policy, information suppression, research ethics, Richard P. Phelps | Tagged career-strategic research, dismissive reviews, elites, expertise, misrepresentation, research ethics, research fraud, think tanks | Leave a 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

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 →