Tag Archives: censorship

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 →

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Common Core’s Language Arts

Posted on 08/09/2015 by Richard P Phelps

It is often said that scientific writing is dull and boring to read. Writers choose words carefully; mean for them to be interpreted precisely and, so, employ vocabulary that may be precise, but is often obscure. Judgmental terms—particularly the many … Continue reading →

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The Gauntlet: How think tanks and federally-funded centers misrepresent and suppress other education research

Posted on 02/07/2014 by Richard P Phelps

New in the Nonpartisan Education Review: https://nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Essays/v10n1.htm The aggressive, career-strategic behavior of researchers in federally funded centers and think tanks creates many problems, including a loss of useful information and bad public policies based on skewed information. But, two adverse … Continue reading →