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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
All of Rhee’s Michigan Legislative allies were Republican and Tea Party, DeVos, and Koch-funded
The leaked internal briefing document by Rhee’s organization spelled out all the major legislative allies that carried her water. Not surprisingly, all the legislative sponsors of the four anti-teacher, anti union bills that Rhee pushed were funded by anti-teacher groups, all Republican, Tea Party-funded or otherwise linked to right wing foundations. 1. Kenneth Yonker (HB [...]
Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst collaborated on Michigan bill limiting collective bargaining for teachers
Written by Laura Clawson for the Daily Kos. Read the original here. “Education blogger At the Chalk Face has obtained an internal briefing document from Michelle Rhee’s Students First, and makes clear just how extensively Students First collaborated with Michigan Republicans on four education bills targeting teachers, including one limiting collective bargaining. The 30-page PDF [...]
Rhee has nothing to fear from DC Inspector General's ''investigation''
Michelle Rhee was quoted as saying that she “100% supports” the DC investigator general’s inquiry into test cheating. Some investigation: an extremely foreshortened look at a scant 8 out of 103 high erasure schools. According to news reports, the OIG scope of work is limited to the 8 schools already investigated by Caveon. Interestingly, Caveon has said that its contract [...]
”Michelle Rhee, Inc.”
Written by Alan Suderman for the Washington City Paper. Read the original here. “Billionaire Eli Broad told New York magazine that StudentsFirst planned to raise $50 million for start-up costs from 20 individuals and eventually spend $200 million a year. Those are jawdropping numbers at first blush, but not much of a stretch for Rhee [...]
''As Michelle Rhee links arms with the right, allies worry''
Written by Suzy Khimm, for the Washington City Paper. Read the original here. “For those who viewed Michelle Rhee as an anti-union bully, the past few months have offered lots of chances to say “toldya so.” Soon after resigning as the D.C. Public Schools chancellor in October, Rhee began appearing with Republican governors who were [...]