Ed Policy

In the May 9 San Jose Mercury News, I review Steve Poizner's new book "Mount Pleasant: My Journey From Creating a Billion-Dollar Company to Teaching at a Struggling Public High School." Some cr...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2010/05/steve-poizner-learns-from-teaching-in.html

The teachers' union in Capistrano Unified attacks me for encouraging the district to consider Singapore Math instead of a business-as-usual math textbook series. The attack appears in the union'...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2010/01/teachers-union-attacks-bill-evers.html

Ze'ev Wurman and I wrote an op-ed that we published Dec. 11 as a guest column on Jay P. Greene's Blog. The post was entitled: "Alternative Needed to Common Core: An Additional Consortium for ‎...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/12/problems-with-common-core-national.html

I joined Sean Reardon, an associate professor at the Stanford School of Education, for a half-hour discussion on statewide testing of K-12 students in California. Within the over-arching topic...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/11/bill-evers-on-tv-on-standardized.html

Guest post by Ze'ev Wurman Review of "Focus in High School Mathematics," National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2009 This document stands out more for what it omits rather than for what ...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-nctm-hs-math-doc-does-disservice.html

GUEST POST by Ze'ev Wurman In this week's Ed Week, Jonathan Osborne, a Stanford Ed School prof., has an interesting article on teaching science in Texas . Prof. Osborne seems unhappy with the p...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/09/double-standard-on-texas-science.html

The September/October 2009 issue of the Harvard Education Letter has an article by David McKay Wilson entitled "The Invisible Hand in Education Policy" on the role of economists in analyzing and...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/08/influence-of-economists-in-education.html

Goldie Blumenstyk published on Aug. 25 an obituary in the Chronicle of Higher Education for Stanley H. Kaplan, who founded a pioneering SAT tutoring enterprise. Kaplan had an impact on preparati...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/08/stanley-h-kaplan-pioneer-educational.html

In his column today (Aug. 25), Thomas Sowell says that people see the world through a mind-set and that part of that mind-set is that when looking for an explanation of problems, we should look ...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/08/explaining-in-terms-of-external-causes.html

The May-June issue of the Skeptical Inquirer prints an important article on the science of nutrition by Dr. Reynold Spector , who is currently a clinical professor at the Robert Wood Johnson Me...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/07/pseudoscientific-research-in-nutrition.html

The Stanford Review (a newspaper at Stanford University put out by conservative & libertarian students) published in its current issue an interview with me done by the paper's editor-in-chief B...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/06/stanford-review-interview-with-bill.html

Austin attorney Sandy Kress was President George W. Bush's principal adviser on drafting the No Child Left Behind law and, earlier, was the chief architect of Texas's school accountability system...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/06/sandy-kress-raises-questions-about.html

Patrick Riccards, blogging at eduflack, reports that California has signed onto the national-standards effort, but (wisely in my opinion) has placed conditions on its commitment to adhering to t...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/06/californias-conditions-on-national.html

"oday's schools are driven by assessment to a degree that surprised us....ests used as ends in themselves, rather than as one means to assist in intellectual development of the individual studen...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/05/complaining-about-testing-can-you-guess.html

Guest post by Ze'ev Wurman Yesterday’s release of the long-term NAEP results has been already written about here , here , and here . For 9-year-olds and 13-year-olds the news is good. Signific...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/04/more-musings-about-naep.html

The U.S. Department of Education today (Apr. 28) released the 2008 results for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Long-Term Trend Reading and Mathematics Assessments. After t...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/04/ny-times-panel-members-far-apart-on.html

Christopher F. Chabris has a book review in today's (April 27) Wall Street Journal of a truly important book. The book is Why Don't Students Like School?, by University of Virginia psychologist ...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/04/one-of-handfull-one-of-most-important.html

Education school researchers at U.C. Davis and Stanford assert that California's high school exit exam is keeping girls and non-whites from graduating from high school. The study speculates that...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/04/must-we-give-up-high-school-exit-exams.html

California State Schools Superintendent Jack O'Connell spoke to the annual EdSource Forum in Irvine today (April 17). O'Connell, who holds a nonpartisan office, began his speech with political...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/04/california-schools-superintendent-wants.html

The Apr. 8 issue of Education Week has a story about Flores v. State of Arizona, a lawsuit that claims that school programs for English-language learners (ELLs) in the border town of Nogales rece...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/04/inadequate-journalism-will-money-buy.html

The Mar. 30 Guardian in Great Britain reports that Birmingham City University is offering a £4,000 one-year master's degree in Social Media .* The degree program will study Twitter and other ...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/04/this-is-not-item-from-gadflys-april.html

Bill Tucker had a Mar. 31 post on The Quick & the Ed about efforts to limit virtual schooling in Florida. Recently, the Center for Digital Education ranked Florida as having the #1 online-learn...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/04/confining-virtual-schooling-in-fla.html

Chad Aldeman has a post on The Quick & the Ed today (Apr. 1) about an Obama administration retreat on options for children to escape failing schools. As Aldeman puts it: > Secretary of Educa...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/04/you-cant-escape-if-you-dont-know-you.html

In a recent opinon column in the Mar. 26 issue of Politico newspaper, former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford Jr. praises President Obama's courage and resolution on school reform. Ford is curr...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/03/dlc-head-harold-ford-defends-dc.html

The Sunday New York Times today has a front page article on the Obama administration's decision to channel its stimulus money to the states using existing formulas. Times reporter Sam Dillon wri...

http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/2009/03/they-keep-formulas-in-place-for-reason.html