Other questions begged in the argument for educational standards: how are standards set and enforced? People are constantly surprised when I tell them that standards in education mean high-stakes testing, which begs a whole series of … [Read more...]
MTEL Test Gap Raises Spectre of Cultural Bias
Cross Posted at Granby01033People tend to think that if the state creates a test it must be good. For the The Massachusetts Tests for Educational Licensure, that may not have raised the case. Although as one teacher educator told me, I … [Read more...]
Romney’s Apparently Nutty Aide Takes Leave
First there was the indictment of the chairman of Rudy's South Carolina campaign. (The charge was cocaine trafficking!) Of course, he also has good friend Bernard Kerik who's about to be indicted on several felonies. Now Multiple Choice … [Read more...]
Ice Cream Kills, MCAS Makes You Smarter & Other Thoughts
Here Plummer confuses correlation with causation. Ice cream is the a textbook example of this faulty logic: Research has found, for example, that there is a positive correlation between the consumption of ice cream and murder, drowning, … [Read more...]
Tactic or Gaffe: Patrick Admin Circulates Loophole Report?
It's hard to know what the Patrick Administration was thinking when it circulated a draft of the commission considering his proposed changes to the corporate tax code. I'd like to think there was some underlying tactic behind this apparent … [Read more...]
Boom, Boom, Out Go Your Rights?
"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."--Jeremy BenthamDoes anyone else feel uncomfortable with the state making laws about how we spend our time? As someone who could have benefited from measures combatting … [Read more...]
How MCAS Works and Why It Doesn’t Help
Although the DOE denies the existence of a curve on the MCAS test, it is a normed test in that it references back to a normative group. According to the DOE, ?The standard scoring system was developed in August of 1998 when 200 panelists … [Read more...]
Patrick Appoints MCAS Critic State Education Board
It looks like Governor Deval Patrick is serious about reforming MCAS. Today he appointed Ruth Kaplan, an outspoken MCAS critic, to the state Board of Education.Kaplan, a member of the Brookline School Committee since 2003, will serve as the … [Read more...]
A Case for Doubt and Enthusiasm
Many of the Governor's proposals have a solid basis in research and would help solve existing problems. Universal pre-school is one example. I don't know the thinking or research behind full day kindergarten. The basic idea is that more … [Read more...]
Open Letter to Governor Patrick on Education Reform
I hope that you will refrain from the kind of rhetoric found in this line in your UMass-Boston speech: ?No policymaker, no leader, no citizen could look into those same eyes or these before us this morning, and say that we cannot do what we … [Read more...]
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