Category Archives: Education policy

US Education’s Dominant Research Method: Cherry Picking Evidence

Posted on 05/05/2019 by Richard P Phelps

https://truthinamericaneducation.com/education-reform/us-educations-dominant-research-method-cherry-picking-evidence/

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News Flash! AL’s Senate Pro Tem, who has previously stopped all anti-CC bills, filed an anti-CC bill today

Posted on 20/03/2019 by Betty Peters

http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/searchableinstruments/2019RS/bills/SB119.htm?fbclid=IwAR1PKg4sFJhE3A1QxjyAJDPTQm6V2HTJ306VURV2jm-17KGp7lR7MBBxFNo The AL Senate has 35 members; 27 sponsored it.

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Interesting review of Arne Duncan’s book, by fellow Chicagoan Bill Ayers

Posted on 19/02/2019 by Sandra Stotsky

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1X8WUX1KNXQ3B/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1501173065 Arne Doesn’t Learn customer review, by Dr. William C. Ayers If you pick up Arne Duncan’s How Schools Work hoping to learn something about, well, unsurprisingly I suppose, about “how schools work,” you’ll be sorely disappointed. There’s no policy … Continue reading →

Posted in Common Core, Curriculum & Instruction, Education policy, Education Reform, K-12, Sandra Stotsky | Tagged Arne Duncan, US Education Department | Leave a comment

Missouri’s Show-Me Institute: Where Liberty (and Censorship?) Come First

Posted on 07/01/2019 by Richard P Phelps

Last year, in response to one of their blog posts, I submitted a comment to the think tank/advocacy group, the Show-Me Institute, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. I describe what I did, why, and what happened in a Nonpartisan Education … Continue reading →

Posted in Censorship, Education policy, Education Reform, information suppression, partisanship, Richard P. Phelps, Testing/Assessment | Tagged Missouri, Show-Me Institute, St. Louis, think tanks | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Censorship, constructivism, Curriculum & Instruction, Education journalism, Education policy, Erich Martel, information suppression, K-12, research ethics | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Censorship, College prep, Common Core, Curriculum & Instruction, Education journalism, Education policy, Education Reform, Higher Education, information suppression, K-12, partisanship, research ethics, Richard P. Phelps, Testing/Assessment | Tagged Achieve, Bellwether, CCSSO, College Board, Collegeboard, Fordham, NGA | 1 Comment

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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There are Only Two Sides to US Education Policy (Thanks to the Parties)

Posted on 08/04/2018 by Richard P Phelps

https://ivn.us/2018/04/03/two-sides-us-education-policy-thanks-parties/ …at the Independent Voter Network website, https://IVN.us

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New in the Nonpartisan Education Review: Who watches the watchmen? Transparency might guard the integrity of the tests given by the National Assessment of Educational Progress

Posted on 08/04/2018 by Sandra Stotsky

Who watches the watchmen? Transparency might guard the integrity of the tests given by the National Assessment of Educational Progress by Sandra Stotsky https://nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Essays/v14n2.htm

Posted in Censorship, Common Core, Education policy, information suppression, Sandra Stotsky, Testing/Assessment | Tagged NAEP, NAGB, US Education Department | Leave a comment

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 https://nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Reviews/v13n1.htm

Posted in Censorship, Education Fraud, Education journalism, Education policy, Education Reform, information suppression, K-12, research ethics, Richard P. Phelps, Testing/Assessment, Uncategorized | Tagged CRESST, John J. Cannell, Lake Wobegon Effect, test score inflation | Leave a comment

Surprise! SBAC and CRESST stonewall public records request for their financial records

Posted on 01/10/2017 by Richard P Phelps

Say what you will about Achieve, PARCC, Fordham, CCSSO, and NGA— some of the organizations responsible for promoting the Common Core Initiative on us all. But, their financial records are publicly available. Not so for some other organizations responsible for … Continue reading →

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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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Cognitive Science and the Common Core

Posted on 09/07/2017 by Eric Nelson

New in the Nonpartisan Education Review: Cognitive Science and the Common Core Mathematics Standards by Eric A. Nelson Abstract Between 1995 and 2010, most U.S. states adopted K–12 math standards which discouraged memorization of math facts and procedures. Since 2010, … Continue reading →

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Close all USED-funded research centers: Evaluation of existing regulations: My two bits

Posted on 08/07/2017 by Richard P Phelps

My comments below in response to the USED request for comments on existing USED regulations. To submit your own, follow the instructions at: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=ED-2017-OS-0074-0001 MEMORANDUM To: Hilary Malawer, Assistant General Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Education … Continue reading →

Posted in Censorship, Common Core, Education policy, Education Reform, Ethics, information suppression, K-12, OECD, research ethics, Richard P. Phelps, Testing/Assessment | Tagged Federal regulations | 2 Comments

“Organizationally orchestrated propaganda” at ETS

Posted on 18/01/2017 by Richard P Phelps

With the testing opt-out movement growing in popularity in 2016, Common Core’s profiteers began to worry. Lower participation enough and the entire enterprise could be threatened: with meaningless aggregate scores; compromised test statistics vital to quality control; and a strong … Continue reading →

Posted in Censorship, College prep, Common Core, Education policy, Ethics, information suppression, Richard P. Phelps | Tagged ETS, opt out, opting out, Randy Bennett, testing | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Education journalism, Education policy, Education Reform, information suppression, K-12, Mathematics, OECD, Testing/Assessment, Uncategorized, Wayne Bishop | Tagged Finland, OECD, PISA, TIMSS | Leave a comment

Yes, President Trump can do something about Common Core

Posted on 15/11/2016 by Richard P Phelps

For starters, he can shut down the federal funding of organizations that have supplied the misinformation that begat and continues to propagandize Common Core. While the Gates Foundation gets the most attention, government-funded entities play their part. For example, our … Continue reading →

Posted in Common Core, Education policy, K-12, research ethics, Richard P. Phelps, Testing/Assessment | Tagged common core, CRESST, National Research Council, National Science Foundation, President Trump | 1 Comment

Among the Constructivists

Posted on 09/10/2016 by Richard P Phelps

The online journal Aeon posted (6 October, 2016) The Examined Life, by John Taylor, director of Learning, Teaching and Innovation at Cranleigh boarding school in Surrey (U.K.). https://aeon.co/essays/can-school-today-teach-anything-more-than-how-to-pass-exams Taylor advocates “independent learning” in describing his “ideal classroom”: “The atmosphere in … Continue reading →