Laura Chapman on Michael Fullan
I recently posted a long article by Michael Fullan that proposed a new paradigm for education reform. I found Fullan’s dismissal of the status quo...
Category : Testing
Ohio: Voucher Students Are Not Required to Take State Exams
Apparently, the voucher schools were embarrassed by the Ohio study showing that kids who use vouchers lose ground academically. There were two ways to respond...
Les Perelman: We Need an FDA for Educational Assessments
Les Perelman, former professor of writing at MIT and inventor of the BABEL generator, has repeatedly exposed the quackery in computer-scoring of essays. If you...
Who Signed the Pro-Testing Appeals?
Education Trust, led by former Secretary of Education John King, sent two letters to the Biden administration, urging the administration not to allow states to...
Is the edTPA a Valid Measure of Teacher Quality?
Three researchers published an article in the Kappan that is highly critical of the edTPA, a test used to assess whether teacher candidates are prepared...
Laura Chapman: When Bankers Lead Education “Reform”
Our brilliant reader Laura Chapman, retired educator, decided to dig deep into the politics of education reform in Minnesota in response to a post about...
Educators Everywhere See Chance to Ditch Exam Straitjacket
The Financial Times reports on a new phenomenon: educators around the world see the pandemic as an opportunity to break free of standardized exams. Tony...
Edutopia: What is a Good School?
Edutopia reports on new research by Professor C. Kirabo Jackson of Northwestern University, who finds that a “good school” does much more than raise test...
A Teacher in California: The Madness of Test Obsession
A teacher in California, who must remain anonymous to protect her job, wrote this post. CAASP testing is the Common Core test produced by the...
Andrea Gabor: What the Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman Taught Us
Andrea Gabor has written recently about the importance of civics education. She has reminded us that the obsession with standardized testing has robbed students of...