Michael Winerip Discovers Disaggregation!

Good news! NYT education columnist, part-time FairTest flack, confuser of NYC parents, and anti-NCLB propagandist Michael Winerip has, pace today’s column, discovered disaggregated data. He criticizes Jay Mathews’ “Challenge Index” because “Newsweek’s one-variable-takes-all ratings of the 1,200 best high schools are often at odds with federal, state and local assessment systems that typically use more …

He’s Back…NYT’s Winerip Dusts Off The Proven Methods!

What a bargain. The Bush Administration had to pay Armstrong Williams but the NEA gets New York Times education columnist and prolific No Child Left Behind Act disinformation machine Michael Winerip for free! In today’s column Winerip returns to his favorite storyline: the school not making adequate yearly progress and the unfairness and horror of …

Winerip On Math

NYT’s Michael Winerip turns in an interesting profile of his former high school and the predominance of Asian kids in the math club. Yes, it’s stereotypical…but he also does a nice job capturing the perspective of students who are recent immigrants. But here’s where Winerip’s favorite punching bag, NCLB, comes in sort of handy. He …

Odds And Ends

Head Start: This Head Start announcement today is not just an event for an event’s sake.  The policy here matters on the thorny issue of Head Start reform. Update – Sara Mead has more. Politics: All edueyes on Ohio, that matters, but pay attention to the state level elections in Virginia, important harbinger of what …

Except For Them!

NYT education reporter Michael Winerip’s method of holding up schools that are not meeting various accountability requirements and giving an incomplete picture of these schools and what’s going on is well-established.  The archetype of the genre is Lake Alfred in Florida. And of course, Wheeler Elementary deserves a place in the pantheon, too. Today we …

Good For Thee?

Where are the Winerip dittoheads?  Nothing but silence when his column today talks approvingly about kicking a  student out of a school (skimming!) and falsely classifying staff (fraud!)? If he wrote about a charter school doing the same wouldn’t it be further evidence of pervasive mendacity and lead to a day long festival of tweets …