ARTICLES - Nonpartisan Education Review

Articles (Empirical Research) & Books

2025:

• Phelps & MacArthur, Top Researchers May Suppress More Information Than They Provide: Surveying NBER Dismissive Literature Reviews (pdf)
• Dar, Farooq, Akhter, Malik, Shah, Maajid, & Dhar, Thank You, Teacher. In 'Other Peoples' Words! A Study of Thesis Acknowledgement Sections (pdf) (html)

2024:

• Shen, Integrated Curriculum Reform and its Impact on Science Education: Why is the West Falling behind East Asia in PISA and TIMSS? (pdf)
• Churchill and Priest, Texas School Districts Violated a Law Intended to Add Transparency to Local Elections (blog post)

2023:

• Merrifield, Using Targeted Private School Choice to Eliminate Pockets of Persistent Urban Poverty: A Preliminary Assessment (article) (pdf) (docx))

2022:

• Ongong, Cyberespace et risques de manipulation de la jeunesse : pour une approche critique de l'éducation à la citoyenneté numérique (pdf) (article)

2021:

• Simpson, Texas Developmental Education Crisis (article)

2020:

• Oliphant, Middle-School Winners: Why American Middle-School Students Should Take the International Graduate Record Exam Seriously (article)

2019:

• Merrified, Price-less Economists (pdf)
• Ligon, Test Critics Fail the Test: Critics of Testing Don't Understand the Basics of Testing
• Phelps, A Decade in the Paranoid World of US Education Research, Part 1: The Scoldings

2018:
Special Section: Phelps, Common Core Collaborators: Six Organizational Portraits

• The Organization Named Achieve: Cradle of Common Core Cronyism
• The Council of Chief State School Officers and National Governors Association: Whom do they serve?
• Real Clear Propaganda: Bellwether's Education News Bias
• The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and Institute: Influence for Hire
• Does College Board Deserve Public Subsidies?


• Martel, DC's Friendship Collegiate Charter HS's CEO released three redacted student transcripts. On each one, courses required for graduation are missing and many courses show credit values that were inflated. (article)
• Zuti & Lukovics, Fourth generation universities and regional development (article)

2017:
• Nelson, Cognitive Science and the Common Core Mathematics Standards (article)
• Cannell, Nationally Normed Elementary Achievement Testing in America's Public Schools: How All Fifty States are Above the National Average (book)
• Martel, Open Letter to the DC Federal City Council: Transparency in performance metrics needed for all schools, including charters (article)
• Martel, INVESTIGATION REQUEST: Into the process of selecting a Chancellor nominee (or, the DC Public Schools lie with statistics ...again (article)

2015:
• Stotsky & Holzman, The Costs of Federal Intervention in Local Education: The Effectiveness of America's Choice in Arkansas (article)
• Innes, Selling "Performance" Assessments with Inaccurate Pictures from Kentucky (article)

2013:
• Martinez, Tost, Hilgert, Woodard-Meyers, Gang Membership Risk Factors for Eighth-Grade Students (article)
• McNee, Why Billy Can't Read (book) (pdf)

2012:
• Bishop, Clopton, & Milgram , A Close Examination of Jo Boaler's Railside Report (article)

2011:
• Oliphant, Standard Worldwide American Dictionary English versus Polyglot America: A Survival Kit for Personal-Growth Learners (book)

2010:
• Stichter, High Stakes Accountability and High School Student Perceptions of Instructional Climate: A Longitudinal Trend Study (article)
• Oliphant, AlzHope: A Multi-volume eBook Confidence Builder for Alzheimer’s Worriers (book)
• Phelps, The Source of Lake Wobegon [updated] (article)
• Shawer, The Relationships between EFL Student Cognitive Functioning, Curriculum Diversification and Ethnic Culture Differences (article)
• Lampley & Johnson, Mentoring At-risk Youth: Improving Academic Achievement in Middle School Students (article)
• Oliphant, BigVocab: A Dictionary-based Guide to Metrologically Authoritative Vocabulary Testing and Learning (book)
• Oliphant, Speak Sharp: How to Be an Effective User of Standard Worldwide American Pronunciation English (book)
• Oliphant, Recitation Whiz: A Structural Method for Memorizing Poems and Other Texts (book)

2009:
• Oliphant, Shakespeare in the Head for Health: A Reality Orientation Option for Alzheimer's Worriers (book)
• Oliphant, WordEdge�: A Career Mobility Guide to High Speed Dictionary-Based Electronic Learning and Testing, (book)

2007:
• Ligon, Why Eva Baker Doesn't Seem to Understand Accountability: The Politimetrics of Accountability (article)
• Oliphant, An Access-Dictionary of Internationalist High Tech Latinate English (book)
• Oliphant, Dictionary Based Learning � The Personal-Best Route to Vocabulary Power, Reading Comprehension, and High Stakes Test Taking Success (book)

2006:
• Hambleton, Update on MCAS: Is it Working? Is it Fair? (article)
• Stotsky, Why American Students Do Not Learn to Read Very Well: The Unintended Consequences of Title II and Teacher Testing (article)

2005:
• Phelps, The Source of Lake Wobegon (article)
• Stotsky, Bradley, & Warren, School-Related Influences on Grade 8 Mathematics Performance in Massachusetts (article)