The Tyranny Of Testing: Part 3, 2020
In the first article of this series I explained the incredible amount of time lost to mandatory, high-stakes testing (and …
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SAT Adversity Score Subterfuge
In July of this year, in Adversity Scores: Real Racism in Higher Education, I wrote about the company that produces …
Adversity Scores: Real Racism In Higher Education
Back in the 1400s when I was in high school and had a great deal more hair, I took the …
AP: Fun Facts To Know And Tell
Let us begin, gentle readers, with an entirely outrageous, white privileged, racist, sexist–fill in your favorite ist here–proposition: some people …
Educrats And The Scourge of Achieving Transformation
Laboring in the rocky fields of education, I find myself more and more frustrated. As I’ve noted from time to time, …
The Tyranny Of Testing 2018, Part 5
In the first four articles in this series–-available here, here, here and here–I explored many issues relating to mandatory, high stakes testing. However, I’ve yet …
Grade Inflation: You Get What You Deserve
The American Interest recently published an article decrying rampant grade inflation in American schools. They’re right about the inflation, but …
Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 5
In the first four articles in this series–available here, here, here and here-I explored many issues relating to mandatory, high stakes testing. However, I’ve yet to …
Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 2
In Testing Tyranny, Part 1, I focused on how mandatory, high stakes testing is destroying the canon, removing enormous amounts …
Conservative Cognitive Dissonance
All political philosophies have contradictions, or perhaps more accurately, those espousing them have contradictory goals. I don’t identify as a …
