What I Said About NCLB and Standardized Testing a Decade Ago
In 2011, I was interviewed by Terri Gross on “Fresh Air,” her NPR program. When my book The Death and Life of the Great American...
Category : Standardized Testing
Andrea Gabor: How Big Philanthropy Captured Media Coverage of Their Education Investments
Andrea Gabor is the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism at Baruch College, which is part of the City University of New York. Gabor has written...
Yong Zhao and William McDiarmid: Time to Rethink Standardized Testing
Two friends got together to address an important topic for readers of the blog. Yong Zhao is a much-published international scholar based at the University...
Gayle Greene: The Country Moves Forward, the Schools Remain Mired in the Past
Gayle Green is a professor emeritus at Scripps College. In this post, she rages about the stupidity of the Biden testing mandate. In other areas...
Kevin Welner: Parents Thrilled with Return of Testing!
Kevin Welner, director of the National Education Policy Center and professor of education at the University of Colorado in Boulder, writes here about the “testing...
Please Complete This Survey on Opting Out of Standardized Testing
Researchers at Teachers College, Columbia University, are conducting a survey on opting out of standardized tests. You can help them by completing their survey. I...
A Bold Idea for Testing: Opt-In
The Ossining, New York, school district has a creative response to the federal mandate to administer tests at a time when children’s lives have been...
Richard P. Phelps Looks Back on D.C. Reform, Part 2
Richard P. Phelps was hired by D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee to oversee testing, which was a crucial element in her plans to “reform” the...
Richard P. Phelps: The D.C. Reform Hoax, Part 1
Richard P. Phelps recounts his experiences as the director of assessment for Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools. Phelps was expected...
Theresa Thayer Snyder: What Shall We Do With the Children After the Pandemic?
I originally posted this commentary in December 2020. It has since been opened by readers more than 600,000 times. It struck a chord with teachers...