What You Need to Know About Standardized Testing
Valerie Strauss posted this article that I wrote on her Washington Post site “The Answer Sheet.” The tests now required by federal law are worthless....
Category : Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Newsweek: Betsy DeVos Steals from the Poor and Gives to the Rich
Readers of this blog know that Betsy DeVos decoded, against federal law and precedent, that CARES coronavirus funding should be divided among all students, rich,...
NAEP Scores Drop in History, Civics: DeVos Blames Public Schools, Not NCLB, RTTT, ESSA, CCSS
The National Center for Education Statistics released NAEP scores in history and geography, which declined, and in civics, which were flat. Secretary of Education Betsy...
New Study Finds That NCLB Got Small and Diminishing Returns
No Child Left Behind will be recognized in time as the most colossal failure in federal education policy, whose disastrous effects were amplified by Race...
Breitbart: Trump Supporters Oppose Rhee and Moskowitz, Favor Evers
This is a first for me. I never posted anything from Breitbart, the website of the alt-right. But friends pointed me to this post there,...
Mercedes Schneider: What Happened to New Orleans?
You may have read that Louisiana’s famous, controversial, ballyhooed Recovery School District has been dissolved. Eleven years after Hurricane Katrina, the district comprised of charter...
Mercedes Schneider: My Three Big Concerns about ESSA
Mercedes Schneider has read the new Every Student Succeeds Act, every word of it. She has three major concerns: First, the bill requires...
Mercedes Schneider: The Original ESEA Was 32 Pages Long; ESSA is 1,061 Pages Long
Mercedes Schneider did a neat job of locating the original Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. It was 32 pages long. The new...
Why FairTest Supports ESSA
FairTest has been the staunchest, most persistent critic of standardized testing for decades. Monty Neill explains here why FairTest supports ESSA, with full recognition of...
What’s In the ESSA About Accountability?
Here is a report from the Washington Post on the accountability features of the Every Student Succeeds Act. “Specifically, under the Every Student Succeeds...