Tag: NCLB

• Animated Conversation: Dewey and Dubya

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  December 3, 2012

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  Accountability

  Its finals week at UT-Austin. Lindsay Redd and Lindsay Butterfield created this short animated discussion between George W. Bush and John Dewey for their final project presentation today in my Education Foundations course. Enjoy!

• Race and NCLB Waivers: Moving Around the Chairs?

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  November 25, 2012

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  Accountability, African Americans, High-Stakes Testing, Latina/os

  In the recent vote for 2012 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award, the Florida SBOE race-based test score goals came in a close second to TFA for the prize. In fact, two of my Linkedin connections made the following comments in response the posting:  I vote for ALL ESEA waivers that systematize the achievement gap in many,…

• It will take 80 more years…

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  October 4, 2012

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  Accountability, High-Stakes Testing

  It will take 80 more years for No Child Left Behind to close the achievement gap. Sean Reardon, Stanford University Professor of Education, comment (October 4, 2012 INVALSI Accountability Conference in Rome, Italy) based on his latest research on achievement gaps in the United States. 

• “Illusion of Inclusion,” Article about Race and Standards in Harvard Educational Review

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  September 20, 2012

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  Accountability, African Americans, High-Stakes Testing, Latina/os, Standards

   In this article, Julian Vasquez Heilig, Keffrelyn Brown, and Anthony Brown offer findings from a close textual analysis of how the Texas social studies standards address race, racism, and communities of color. Using the lens of Critical Race Theory, the authors uncover the sometimes subtle ways that the standards can appear to adequately address race while…

• Bad Apples?: Accountability, AYP, and Cheating

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  August 10, 2012

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  Accountability, High-Stakes Testing

  I gave another interview on the cheating scandal in El Paso (1,2,3) yesterday. The question that often arises is this only a case of bad apples? The research literature has long shown serial dishonesty in Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) publicly reported dropout and graduation numbers (See for example IDRA; Losen, Orfield, & Balfanz, 2006; Vasquez Heilig & Darling-Hammond) suggesting…