Tag Archives: information suppression

The Malfunction of US Education Policy: Elite Misinformation, Disinformation and Selfishness [book review]

Posted on 04/08/2023 by A.P. Dillon

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, April 2023, 196 pages, ISBN 9781475869941 With scholarly precision, Phelps details the collection of actors that have driven and continue to propel U.S. education policy and preferred narratives. In doing so, he has laid out a … Continue reading →

Posted in Common Core, Education Fraud, Education journalism, Education policy, Education Reform, information suppression, K-12, partisanship, research ethics, Richard P. Phelps, US Education Department | Tagged Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, citation cartels, CRESST, information suppression, pack funding, strategic partnerships, 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

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 →

Posted in Common Core, Education policy, Education Reform, Ethics, K-12, research ethics, Richard P. Phelps, Testing/Assessment, Uncategorized | Tagged academic rigor, assessment, censorship, common core, CRESST, education policy, information suppression | 1 Comment

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 →