Thursday, June 28, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Friday, June 8, 2012
The Business and Politics of Testing - Diane Ravitch
Not only are testing companies backing big business in its efforts to control education policy and push the privatization agenda, but they are including propaganda in the tests themselves.
The Pearsonizing of the American Mind - Bridging Differences - Education Week (Diane Ravitch)
The Pearsonizing of the American Mind - Bridging Differences - Education Week (Diane Ravitch)
Monday, June 4, 2012
NEPC: Announces awards for worst education research, 2011
For more, on this serious exposé of bad research carried out through policy-driven research agendas, see: The National Education Policy Institute at the University of Colorado:
http://nepc.colorado.edu/think-tank/bunkum-awards/2011.
Among the 'winners': Bill and Melinda Gates, the Center for American Progress, Progressive Policy Institute, and others, for "research" promoting school reform initiatives with little social science evidence.
http://nepc.colorado.edu/think-tank/bunkum-awards/2011.
Among the 'winners': Bill and Melinda Gates, the Center for American Progress, Progressive Policy Institute, and others, for "research" promoting school reform initiatives with little social science evidence.
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