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One reaction some people had to my post on elite university admissions in a winner-take-all-society could be easily summarized: So what? Hundreds of thousands of families invest time, energy, hope and resources into attaining a child’s admission to Harvard, Princeton etc., most of them don’t make it, but life is tough, deal with it, nothing [...]
Archive for the ‘High-stakes school testing’ Category
April 2nd, 2013
Category: High-stakes school testing
Of course the Atlanta school miracle was faked. All school miracles are faked. Remember Dukenfield’s law!
January 4th, 2013
Category: 501(c)(3), charity, Education policy, High-stakes school testing, NonProfits, Philanthropy, Public management, Secrecy in government
There’s an old joke about a man who asks a woman to sleep with him for $1 million. She agrees, whereupon he asks her to sleep with him for $1. “What kind of a girl do you think I am?” asks the woman indignantly. “We’ve settled that,” replies the man, “We’re just arguing about the [...]
February 6th, 2012
Category: Education policy, High-stakes school testing
Appalling, essential article on what level of writing earns a passing grade on New York’s high school leaving exam.
March 28th, 2011
… it’s worth cheating for. The D.C. school system provides another example. Management-by-measurement needs to build in cheating-prevention features, including punishment for cheaters.
June 10th, 2010
Category: High-stakes school testing
It’s as true now as it was eighty years ago, when the W.C. Fields character said it in You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man. But the advocates of high-stakes low-quality standardized testing keep ignoring it.
December 28th, 2002
Category: High-stakes school testing
Now lemmesee…. –Using high-stakes tests to reward and punish schools and their staffs encourages cheating. –The relatively cheap (on a per-student basis) tests that have to be used if testing is to be done on a census, rather than a sample, mean that the tests measure only a subset of what we want the students [...]