Half of lagging readers suffer from dyslexia, and the other half from dysteachia
Lagging readers are visible in every school and district. But [...]
Why would any scholar oppose interim assessments?
Times are strange. Scholars in this post-enlightenment era are supposed [...]
Are too many ed researchers talking mainly to each other?
At this year’s annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference, [...]
When Teachers Are Left Alone to Make Sense of Test Results, Half Get It Wrong
For more than 20 years, higher-ups have been urging educators [...]
Another CERA conference without debate, dialogue or disagreement
Each November, I go to the annual conference of the [...]
Supes are asking for help with LCAPs: candid criticism and appeals for technical support
What has happened to the high hopes policy heavies had [...]
The End of the Era of Statistical Significance (and Why You Should Care)
The editors of the official journal of the American Statistical [...]
Good news awaits if we stop measuring ELs and start measuring “Ever-ELs”
The California accountability system’s interpretation of the progress of English [...]
Why I’m a skeptic of “best practices”
I spent September 13 at a special event in Palo Alto [...]
Scholars scorch State Board’s resistance to a true growth measure
When the State Board of Education sat down on July [...]
