CONTENT - NONPARTISAN EDUCATION REVIEW

Foundational Essays

Nonpartisan Education Review Board Members on Standards, Curriculum and Instruction, Censorship and Transparency

Standards:

• Bibliophobia (Fitzhugh) # Review of the Minnesota Academic Standards in Social Studies (Martel) # The Whole Nine Yards (Fitzhugh) # A Review of the "Greene Method" for Calculating Graduation Rates (Phelps) # Luxury or Necessity? Term Papers in U.S. High Schools (Fitzhugh) # Characteristics of an Effective Testing System (Phelps) # High Mediocrity (Fitzhugh) # Dropping the Ball on Dropouts (Phelps) # Know Nothings II (Fitzhugh) # Ready or Not (Fitzhugh) # No Child Left Behind, No Diploma Left Unquestioned - The Social Impact of Standardized Achievement Testing (Oliphant) # Romantic Fiction (Fitzhugh) # A Review of Inside the SAT (Carson) # Double Vision (Fitzhugh) # Raising the Grade: How High School Reform Can Save Our Youth and Our Nation, by Bob Wise [book review] (Phelps)

Curriculum and Instruction:

• Peremptory Challenges (Fitzhugh) # Why Reading Teachers Are Not Trained to use a Research-Based Pedagogy (Stotsky) # Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us, by Daniel Koretz [book review] (Staradamskis) # Trivial Pursuit (Fitzhugh) # High School Size and the Education of All Students in 9-12: What the Research Suggests (Stotsky) # Testing Opponents Relentless in New York City (Carson) # Writing Report (Fitzhugh) # If Certain Education Theorists Trained Olympic Athletes (Phelps) # The State of the Term Paper (Fitzhugh) # Pre-Disaster Educational Planning and Personal-Best Learning (Oliphant) # Multiple Alternatives (Fitzhugh)

Censorship and Transparency [or, the lack thereof]

• The Dissolution of Education Knowledge (pdf) (Phelps) # Beardsley Ruml and the Rise of Commodity Education (Oliphant) # Educational Testing Policy: Stuck Between Two Political Parties (Phelps) # Accountability, responsibility and failed student achievement: Who is responsible? Who is accountable? How can it be fixed? [Washington, DC] (Martel) # Censorship Has Many Fathers (Phelps) # School Governance, Academic Accountability, and Student Achievement [Washington, DC] (Martel) # Standardized Testing, Regrettable Food, Urine Therapy, and Trichotillomania (Phelps) # Phantom Baccalaureates and the Princeton Review (Oliphant) # Think Tanks, Celebrity Research, and the Dissolution of Education Knowledge (Phelps) # The Rigor of Scientifically-Based Research May be Mortis (Phelps) # High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion, and Graduation, by the National Research Council [book review] (Phelps)