2005 Notes to the Proseminar: Relationship of Education Policy to Education Research and Social Science These notes have two purposes: to disabuse naïve conceptions of the role of research...
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MICHAEL JOHN SCRIVEN (28 MARCH 1928 – 28 AUGUST 2023) Bob Stake hired me at Urbana in 1965. Bob was editing the AERA monograph series on Curriculum Evaluation. He shared a copy of a manuscri...
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Ghosts and Reminiscences: My Last Day on Earth as a "Quantoid" Gene V Glass Arizona State University I was taught early in my professional career that personal recollections were not pr...
January 2000 Meta-Analysis at 25 A Personal History Gene V Glass Arizona State University Email: glass@asu.edu It has been nearly 25 years since meta-analysis, under that name and in ...
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Gene V Glass David C. Berliner At a recent Education Writers Association seminar, Jim Blew, an assistant to Betsy DeVos at the Department of Education, opined that the Department is inclin...
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The following is an edited log of an asynchronous online discussion of the Tennessee Value Added Assessment System (TVAAS) for assessing teachers. This discussion took place in late 1994 and earl...
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Recently, a colleague in England very politely called me on the carpet for something I wrote in 1981 that did not mercifully die in the interim. Here is his question. > Dear Dr. Glass > ...
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Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953 in times with eerie similarities to today, is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury. The novel presents a future America in which books are outlawed and firemen burn...
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William Doyle is a Rockefeller Resident Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar who spent time recently at the University of Eastern Finland. When he returned to New York City, he went in search of a Finn...
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The following is quoted from the Washington Post article of January 30, 2018: “In 2018, Koch donors see Arizona as ground zero in their push. Doug Ducey, the former chief executive of Cold S...
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Dear Senator Jeff Flake: Back in about 2000 when you were running for your seat in the Arizona House and you came to visit my colleague David Berliner and me in the Dean's Office at Arizona St...
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I have on this blog exposed some of the unusual workings of Challenge charter school in Glendale, Arizona. In short, Greg Miller, who until recently, was Chairman of the Arizona State Board of Ed...
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It doesn’t take much observation of the typical high school curriculum to see that most of what is being taught is a vestige of a long past era. Geometry was essential to the ancient Egyptians,...
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Republicans in the Arizona legislature recently passed a significant expansion of the "Empowerment Scholarship" program -- a thinly disguised voucher program adopted years ago and slightly expand...
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NEPC's Kevin Welner called them "neo-vouchers": tax credits and "scholarships" that attempt to hide their intent behind deceitful labels. On Thursday night, April 6, 2017, a Republican domina...
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As a new administration moves into the US Department of Education, the opportunity arises to review and assess the Department's past practices. A recent publication goes to the heart of how US DO...
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Just like freedom of speech, everybody thinks there should be academic freedom until a teacher does something they don’t agree with. Such is the case with Representatives Thorpe and Finchem of ...
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Greg Miller, until recently, was Chairman of the Arizona State Board of Education. The fact that Miller also owns a charter school in Glendale, a suburb of Phoenix, from which he, his wife and hi...
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The Republican convention in Cleveland has -- no surprise -- brought forth its platform today. The sections referring to K-12 education also contain no surprises. They follow: > We support t...
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When asked recently how the poor can lift themselves out of poverty, Bill Gates answered that they should raise chickens. And then preceded to explain why raising chickens is a nifty way to surv...
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Education Week, the erstwhile serious outlet for news about public education, has taken a turn. Today, Ed Week published a puff piece extolling the virtues of charter schools. One must read t...
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Occasionally, authors receive feedback from a reader that says in effect, "I believe what you wrote; you're on course." And so were we gratified recently when Julie Rummel, a veteran teacher from...
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The great irony is that the charter school movement was launched decades ago as a solution to the "problem" that special needs students were not being adequately served by the traditional public ...
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Arizona is a leader in the charter school movement. They lead in % of students in charter schools, and they lead the world in "Lack of Accountability." And no one in a position of influence reall...
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I have kept no secret at this Blog that I consider the BASIS charter school chain to be a disaster. If you wonder why, read here , and here , here , and here . In spite of its obvious shortcoming...
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