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Recent Posts
- Nation’s Report Card: Common Core delivering education stagnation 12 April, 2018
- There are Only Two Sides to US Education Policy (Thanks to the Parties) 8 April, 2018
- 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 8 April, 2018
- What I learned at the ResearchED (US) Media Panel 2 December, 2017
- New in the Nonpartisan Education Review: Dan Koretz’s Big Con 26 November, 2017
- Count the Tropes, Dept. 6 November, 2017
- Fewer Students Learning Arithmetic and Algebra 15 October, 2017
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Maine Supreme Court Upholds Ranked Choice Voting Law ivn.us/2018/04/17/mai… via @ivn
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Growth Mindset and Grit Interventions learningscientists.org/blog/2018/4/19…
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The Psychology of Offering an Apology: Understanding the Barriers to Apologizing and How to Overcome Them - Karina… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
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A majority of U.S. teens fear a shooting could happen at their school, and most parents share their concern pewrsr.ch/2HrmMif
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John Hopkins flawed report on Kentucky
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
‘One size fits all’ national tests not deeper or more rigorous
http://www.educationnews.org/education-policy-and-politics/one-size-fits-all-national-tests-not-deeper-or-more-rigorous/ Some say that now is a wonderful time to be a psychometrician — a testing and measurement professional. There are jobs aplenty, with high pay and great benefits. Work is available in the private sector at test development firms; … Continue reading
Some Common Core Salespersons’ Salaries: DC Edu-Blob-ulants
Linked are copies of Form 990s for Marc Tucker’s National Center for Education and the Economy (NCEE), Checker Finn’s Fordham Foundation and Fordham Institute, and Bob Wise’s Alliance for Excellent Education (AEE). Each pays himself and at least one other … Continue reading
David Coleman in Charge
Wayne Bishop recently made me aware of the unfortunately completely one-sided discussion of US mathematics education at the recent Aspen Ideas Festival. David Leonhardt is Washington Bureau Chief for the New York Times, won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting … Continue reading
