Opinion: On pushing the ESEA boulder up the hill
This article originally appeared in the April 21 edition of The Education Gadfly newsletter.
This article originally appeared in the April 21 edition of The Education Gadfly newsletter.
Kevin Carey calls a recent Daily Caller article by Kay Hymowitz ?generally silly? and ?an alarmed reaction to female college attainment.? No, the piece is none of those things.
You don't want to miss this opening act! Be sure to mute your cell phone and get ready to enjoy the show.
Mike and Checker explain how NCLB got it backwards, and what ?reform realism? would look like in practice.
?We're talking about questions of fundamental fairness ? issues that have always played out in our schools. Our kids can't succeed if we don't give them the tools they need. No matter where you sit on the political spectrum, how could we not?''*
Mike and Rick conjure up some crazy weather this week during Pardon the Gadfly: a hailstorm of ideas from Fordham's new ESEA briefing book, the landfall of Hurricane Winerip, and the epic J.C. Brizard-snowpocalypse. Amber heats things up with an NBER paper on teacher evals, and Chris, well, he just thinks Canada is crazy. [powerpress]
In science, statisticians must frequently grapple with interaction effects. Let's say, for example, that a scientist wants to study the impact of diet and exercise on lowering cholesterol. They have one group follow a low-fat diet, another a new running regimen, and a third group both. It's possible that both the diet group and the exercise group see a modest dip in cholesterol.
Results are in! We had ninety-two respondents to Tuesday's survey asking two simple questions: Do you align yourself with the education-reform community, and did you go to public school?
We've got a true multimedia experience for you in this week's Education Gadfly. Mike and Checker lead the way with an editorial on a little thing we like to call ?Reform Realism?
Esther Quintero, a research associate at the Albert Shanker Institute, blogs today that focusing on teacher quality and accountability is un-American, because it "views students exclusively as passive recipients of their own learning." She goes on to criticize school reformers for portraying students as "devoid of agency."