The Nonpartisan Education Review provides a forum for those interested in education issues but put off by the education policy groups affiliated with the political parties. We aim to make a difference by remaining non-aligned and non-partisan. Learn more about us and read the Nonpartisan Education Review^® (ISSN 2150-6477), our peer-reviewed, open access electronic journal.  

Nonpartisan Education Review: ALL CONTENT, 2005-2012

New in the Nonpartisan Education Review:

• Four Foundations Donate to the DC Public Schools, With Conditions (resource)

• Martel, Teaching in a Culture of Fear - the Atlanta Scandal (essay)
• Phelps, Educators cheating on tests is nothing new; Doing something about it would be (essay)
• Oliphant, Modern Metrology and the Revision of our Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (essay)
• Phelps, Extended Comments on the draft Standards for Educational & Psychological Testing (but, in particular, draft chapters 9, 12, & 13) (essay)
• Haladyna, Using Student Tests to Evaluate Teachers - A Very Bad Idea (essay)

Also in the Nonpartisan Education Review:

• Phelps, The Effect of Testing on Student Achievement: 1910-2010 (slide show) L'effet de tests standardisés sur les résultats scolaires des élèves : 1910-2010 (slide show)
• Dancis, College Readiness--A Simple Description (essay), # K-12 "Pretend Mathematics" Curriculum Produces Freshmen Who Know Less Algebra (resource), # All Teachers Can Learn Mathematics; All Students Can Learn Mathematics From Teachers Who Know Mathematics (resource), # U.S. Government should stop financing arithmetic avoidance (essay)

• Stamm, Quality versus quantity (essay), # The Common Sense of Copying (essay), # The Real Source of Success in Japanese Education (essay)

• Oliphant, Standard Worldwide American Dictionary English versus Polyglot America (book) # AlzHope: A Multi-volume eBook Confidence Builder for Alzheimer’s Worriers (book) # Recommended Reading: the National Association of Scholars, and the Limits of Consensualism (review)

• Beals, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (book review)

• Stichter, High Stakes Accountability and High School Student Perceptions of Instructional Climate: A Longitudinal Trend Study (article)

• Junk Science Mom, Nothing Fair about the Fair Test Junk Science (essay), FairTest's Fishy Finances (essay)

• Garelick, Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World (book review), The Common Core Math Standards: When Understanding is Overrated (essay)

ANNOUNCING: New Educational Foundations: A Trans-ideological Journal of Criticism and Review^TM. PREVIEW: article forthcoming for Issue 1:

ANNOUNCING: Metric Rules, an organization with a mission. "STEM curricula must move towards a greater focus and coherence; we believe that no change would achieve this goal more effectively than removing US customary (inch-pound) units from formal education. A Metric-only approach to STEM education would provide a rational, science-based, intuitive system to learn and build upon. We support metric-only education."

The Silicon Valley Education Foundation hosts an interesting discussion on test cheating.

ProCon.org posts new issue page on standardized tests. (See also their issue page on teacher tenure.)