Monthly Archives: July 2015

“Setting Absurd Standards And Then Announcing Massive Failures Has Undermined Public Support For Public Schools. . . . We Are Dismantling Public School Systems Whose Problems Are Basically The Problems Of Racial And Economic Polarization, Segregation And Economic Disinvestment.”

Posted on July 29, 2015 by jax2816

Originally posted on kavips:
(Educational Researcher, August/September 2014, p.286)  Gary Orfield. Instead of reporting in terms of performance categories, we could report performance in terms of scale scores. A solid body of empirical research suggests that scale scores provide more…

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What Scares Me

Posted on July 18, 2015 by jax2816

There is a lot of misinformation, intention (good and bad), double speak, and confusion floating around these days about standardized testing and its myriad uses. I’d like to go on record about this, and about why I object to the … Continue reading →

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