Horrendous
This is a really awful story and these issues don’t get enough attention. This is one area where Michael Winerip of The Times used to turn in important work on the ed beat.
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This is a really awful story and these issues don’t get enough attention. This is one area where Michael Winerip of The Times used to turn in important work on the ed beat.
Jay Mathews says why he thinks Sara Mead and I are wrong about our Challenge Index griping. It’s a worthy argument and you should read it but I think it falls short. First, just because there are not scads of high schools doing a great job teaching diverse populations to challenging standards (though there are …
Two thoughts about the first post-Winerip NYT “On Education” column. First, on form, I hope it doesn’t turn into a venue for various activists. As I said, let’s get some real people in there, too. Otherwise, hire top talent like Joe Williams, Siobhan Gorman, or Mike Rose. Second, on content, I’m very sympathetic to concerns …
I’ve noticed something, unless I’m traveling I’m usually a few days late to read the Michael Winerip columns that don’t hysterically and often misleadingly trash No Child Left Behind and ed reform in general. We can’t get the Times delivered where I live so I read online and am not prompted to check out the …
Great Michael Winerip column on student newspapers in today’s NYT.
Over at the TPM Cafe Century Foundation’s Greg Anrig worriedly weighs-in about No Child Left Behind pegged to Michael Winerip’s typically misleading article the other day. Anrig makes two basic points, (1) that NCLB is a conservative victory because it’s eroding support for public schools by making people think the public schools are failing and …
Continue reading “More NCLB…Is Milton Friedman Smiling Or Is Bill Taylor?”
In a piece that’s sure to have Michael Winerip’s partisans crying into their portfolio assessments, Sam Freedman profiles CCCR’s Bill Taylor in today’s Times.
Matt Yglesias worries about the potential for pseudostandards (the lowering of standards) as a result of leeway under No Child Left Behind (NCLB). He’s right to worry though NYT’s Michael Winerip is not the most reliable source of information on this issue. Nonetheless, downward pressure from NCLB is a potential problem and a hard to …
NYT’s Winerip looks at some potential problems with the new writing portion of the SAT. Worth checking out.
Two interesting NYT stories. Michael Winerip looks at Urban Academy in New York through the eyes of one student. Really interesting part of the story though is the bit on Princeton Review’s recommendation writing service, which some high schools are using. Don’t robo-recommendations sort of defeat the whole purpose of personal recommendations? Also, Alina Tugend …