Category Archives: information suppression

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

Posted on 8 April, 2018 by Richard P Phelps

There are Only Two Sides to US Education Policy (Thanks to the 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 8 April, 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 http://nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Essays/v14n2.htm

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

Posted on 1 October, 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 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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Close all USED-funded research centers: Evaluation of existing regulations: My two bits

Posted on 8 July, 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 →

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“Organizationally orchestrated propaganda” at ETS

Posted on 18 January, 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 →

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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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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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