In last week’s blog, “Oh, so predictable: NY State Regents makes exams harder to pass,” I argued that changing the cut score so as to increase the failure rate on exams was predictable given the way in which test scores are manipulated to yield results favorable to a political agenda. This week I argue that by reporting test scores in… Read more →
Throughout the history of public schooling in the US, teachers have more often than not been blamed for the failures of our public schools. Under the Bush administration, for example, the teachers’ unions were marginalized during the writing of the No Child Left Behind Act, and Bush’s education department’s distain for teachers was exemplified by Secretary of Education Rodney Paige… Read more →
by David Hursh No matter whether McCain or Obama wins the election, the incoming president and congress will need to sit down and develop a new federal education policy. Given that congress is very likely to be controlled by the Democrats and even Republicans are dissatisfied with the No Child Left Behind Act, we will be presented with an opportunity… Read more →
by David Hursh With the upcoming elections we have an opportunity to shelve current federal education policy, most notably No Child Left Behind, and to develop new policies that will assist rather than harm the education system. In this and upcoming posts, I will critique current policy proposals, recommend directions our education policies might take, and suggest resources that we… Read more →
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