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As the test cheating scandals heat up around the country, media attention is now increasingly focused on the issue. Viewpoints vary–from the uninformed and superficial to those that offer a deeper scrutiny on the root causes of cheating. In other words, from the stupid to the sublime. Take your pick. We are compiling a running list on recent ErasureGate articles. Please feel free [...]
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Academic Reports
- The Way Forward: From Sanctions to Supports
- False Choices: the economic argument against market-driven education reform
- Benefits of Bargaining: How Public Worker Negotiations Improve Ohio Communities
- Partnerships in Education: How Labor-Management Collaboration is Transforming Public Schools
- Collaborating on School Reform: Creating Union-Management Partnerships to Improve Public Schools
- Review of the Gateways to the Principaliship
- What studies say about teacher effectiveness
- Tests, cheating, and educational corruption
- Center for Education Polic: Keeping informed about School Vouchers
- National Academies: Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education
- NRC on Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education
- Six Dangerous Myths about Pay
- Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence
- Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from New York Public Schools
- Paying Teachers for Student Test Scores Damages Schools and Undermines Learning
- NCEE Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program
- Rhee's DC Record: She did no better than previous school leaders
- Do layoffs really disproportionately hurt poorer schools?
- Rhee's "Baltimore Miracle", the original USMBC study
- Rhee's Resume: The Baltimore Miracle, by cohort (Brandenburg)
New Posts
StudentsFirst Objects to Student Protest
Written by Diane Ravitch. Read the entire post here.
“Here is a video of students protesting against StudentsFirst because it supports:
1) charter schools (which in NYC do not accept a fair share of ELLs)
2) high-stakes testing
3) an anti-immigrant Georgia state legislator
The response of StudentsFirst: It claimed the students are just pawns of the teachers’ union, obviously not intelligent enough to be part of a discussion of education issues that matter.
But note that all three points that the students made are correct.
Why does StudentsFirst think that students are too dumb to have valid views about their own education?”
Michelle Rhee on Kojo Nnamdi at noon today
Rhee will be on Kojo Nnamdi today (August 30) at noon to talk about why she’s at the RNC. Here’s the call in number: 1-800-433-8850
Remember Rhee’s no show rally in Connecticut? Now we know why no one showed up…
Leaked documents revealed today by The Daily Change appear to shed light on why Michelle Rhee could muster only a handful of people outside the Connecticut statehouse last March. Although Rhee cheered on Gov. Malloy’s education proposal, Malloy himself declined to participate, saying through a spokesperson that Rhee was too “divisive.” Malloy wasn’t the only who refused to participate. As noted at the time, the rally was very sparsely attended.
According to the document, StudentsFirst just couldn’t turn out a crowd despite shelling out $10,000 (costs included “300 sandwiches”) and partnering with the Connecticut Parents Union (CTPU), The documents show CTPU and StudentsFirst at odds over how much money StudentsFirst owed, with StudentsFirst lawyer Angelia Dickens attempting to bully the group into submission.
Read the full story here.
More than thirty New York City candidates pledge to refuse money from StudentsFirst
Politicker published a list of thirty-three New York City candidates who have pledged not to accept donations from StudentsFirst’s New York group.
These rejections follow the denouncements of StudentsFirst campaign spending by Democrats Tom Reynolds and Hakeem Jeffries.
Three interesting findings in the RomneyFirst report
The RomneyFirst report released yesterday by New Yorker for Great Public Schools, contains a few findings that are worth highlighting on their own.
- According to the report, StudentsFirst has overwhelmingly endorsed Republicans—according to the report, 68% of StudentsFirst endorsements went to Republicans (page 3).
- A PAC connected to StudentsFirst is run by a former Bush-Cheney 2004 communications staffer (page 3).
- StudentsFirst lobbied against a New York law that would have restricted “co-location” of charter schools (page 16). At least two StudentsFirstNY board members, Geoffery Canada and Eva Moskowitz, are also charter school operators, who would benefit from lax co-location policies.
You can read the entire report here.