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

• Phelps, The Rot Festers: Another National Research Council Report on Testing

• 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)

New (or current) in the Nonpartisan Education Review:

• Dancis, 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)

• 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: 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.)