CA Gov. Jerry Brown Hates Testing–Or Does He?
California Gov. Jerry Brown is one of the most powerful anti-student testing politicians in the country. So, when given the chance to sign into law a new system of education accountability that would...
View ArticleMaking Common Core Standards Mean Something
This week the Montana Board of Education voted to become the 45th state to adopt the national Common Core standards. Standards, of course, don’t matter at all if they just sit on shelves. If they’re...
View ArticleFew Students Received NCLB Tutoring Money
Eleven states yesterday applied to the federal government for relief from much of the law formerly known as No Child Left Behind, including the law’s demand that all students be proficient in reading...
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Buckeyes pay big bonuses to wrong guy
If itinerant football coach and short-time television analyst Urban Meyer wasn’t already a member of the 1 percent, he became one in a hurry when he signed a contract worth a minimum of $26.65 million...
View ArticleExtending Accountability Beyond the School
Even in the most troubled neighborhoods and communities—those disrupted by poverty, poor health, violence and other ills—there are usually far more services available for children and youth than is...
View ArticleData Is Central To Shared Accountability
One of the critiques of modern U.S. school reform is that in many places raising test scores has become the sole purpose of education. In my opinion, that is happening at far fewer places than it might...
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The NEA’s “New Professionalism”
Credit: National Education Association A year and a half ago, Dennis Van Roekel, president of the 3.2-million-member National Education Association, asked an independent panel of highly accomplished...
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Cleveland’s Portfolio Plan Promising
Image Credit: Flickr User, Mollivan Jon Last week Cleveland Mayor Frank G. Jackson announced that the city’s school district would transform itself from a command-and-control bureaucracy into a...
View ArticleTeacher Evaluation Promises Matter
With $700 million in federal Race to the Top money at risk, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York Federation of Teachers worked out a deal on a new teacher evaluation system this week. On Friday,...
View ArticleMust Standards Past Be Prologue?
Brookings scholar Tom Loveless is a clear-eyed empiricist who digs deep into test score data and often emerges with surprising findings. A few years back, for example, he looked at individual-student...
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