Education Policy

Exclusive, Anonymous Book Excerpt: An Insider Reveals the "Drunks, Dingbats, and Dilettantes Who Write & Score America's Standardized Tests"

Dan Brown | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Public Schools, High-Stakes Testing, Standardized Testing, Education, Publishing Companies, Education Reform, Education Policy, Media News
Dan Brown

I am highly critical of the current use of standardized tests in American public schools. While testing certainly deserves a place in the world, I bel...

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Watch and Join a Heated Three-Minute Education Debate

Dan Brown | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Partnership for Learning, Public Schools, Wendy Kopp, Performance Pay, No Child Left Behind, High-Stakes Testing, Robert Pondiscio, Teacher Quality, Core Knowledge, Teach for America, Ascd, Student Achievement, Amy Wilkins, American Federation of Teachers, Education Policy, Ed in 08 Blogger Summit, Student Assessment, Standardized Testing, Ed in 08, Teaching in the 408, Teachers, Education Reform, Public Education, Politics News
Dan Brown

At last week's Ed in '08 Blogger Summit, I asked a question about alternatives to high-stakes testing to the education policy panel and received an an...

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Civil Disobedience: South Bronx 8th-Graders Refuse the TEST! (I'm Impressed.)

Dan Brown | Posted 05.21.2008 | Living

Read More: No Child Left Behind, New York City Public Schools, Public Schools, Student Achievement, Education Policy, High-Stakes Testing, School Accountability, Standardized Testing, Douglas Avella, South Bronx, I.S. 318, Living News
Dan Brown

High-stakes testing has spiraled out of control and students are wise to the scheme. The reason we haven't seen more uprisings is that kids have been intellectually and spiritually bludgeoned into submission.

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Newt Gingrich and Me: A Charged Moment at an Education Blogger Summit

Dan Brown | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Public Schools, Hotel Palomar, School Vouchers, Monopoly of Failure, Education Policy, Bloggers, School Funding, Ed in 08 Blogger Summit, School Reform, Education Sector, Teachers, Education Reform, New Gingrich, Ed in 08, Media News
Dan Brown

Gingrich's automatic dismissal of everyone currently within the struggling education system feels parallel to the disastrous de-Baathification process following the US invasion of Iraq.

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The Mounting Collateral Damage of No Child Left Behind

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Damage, Teacher Morale, Nclb, Education Policy, No Child Left Behind, Politics News
Gerald Bracey

Those who are trying to stoke the presidential candidates' interest in education as an election issue aren't having much luck. Not that the public would be paying attention anyway.

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The Biggest Education Issue That Is Not Education

Michele McNeil | Posted 02.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Health Care, 2008 Election, Offthebus, John McCain, John McCain Education, Hillary Clinton Education, Barack Obama Education, Barack Obama, Education, Education Policy, Health Care Reform, Hillary Clinton, Education 2008 Election, Education Reform, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Home News
Michele McNeil

Perhaps the single most important thing that the next president can do for schools has little to do with education, at least on its face. It's reforming health care.

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New York City Schools Receive Misleading Report Cards

Dan Brown | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: School Report Cards, Education, Education Policy, Randi Weingarten, United Federation of Teachers, No Child Left Behind, Michael Bloomberg, School Reform, Standardized Testing, High Stakes Testing, New York City, Politics News
Dan Brown

New York City has led the charge into a dangerous era of importing statistics-driven paradigms from the business sphere. These mechanistic models are an ill fit in education, a wholly human institution.

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