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Educational Testing Service censors Les Perelman’s exposé of their B.S.
Les Perelman (second from right) on a recent visit to the Art Institute of Chicago. Les Perelman is not only an old high school pal. We are still friends. In fact, we spent time together just recently...
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25 hours of standardized testing. A question for the IEA: What ever happened...
Fred, I can’t write a better op-ed about the PARCC than this one: http://educationopportunitynetwork.org/whos-really-failing-students/ Please, please, please post this essential article. It’s PERFECT....
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Little Rock 58 years later. LRSD taken over by Waltons and Rockefeller...
Little Rock Public Schools have been taken over by the state of Arkansas – the Waltons and the Rockefeller Foundation. The reason? Poor test scores at four schools. The union had a plan in place to...
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Testing. The 2% solution.
President Obama’s announcement that students should be tested less is a victory for all those who have seen the destructive results of the education accountability movement that saw its birth in the...
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“Yikes,” said Peter Cunningham.
Peter Cunningham. I don’t normally get into Twitter exchanges. I read ’em. I post ’em. I leave ’em be. The other day I came across this Peter Cunningham tweet: Yikes! With low grad rates and high...
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April 1st was a lost day of PARCC testing.
Stop lying about 4/1being a lost day of instruction. It was a lost day of PARCC testing. — Karen Lewis (@KarenLewisCTU) April 2, 2016 Fred, So – is assessment part of teaching? Did you ever grade your...
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There is nothing objective about standardized testing.
-By Karl-Heinz Gabbey Please allow me to add an observation regarding this thing you call “objectivity”: It doesn’t exist! “Objectivity” exists nowhere in the private or public sectors, including...
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The PARCC and Les Perelman’s BABEL machine.
Les Perelman. -This is an excerpt from The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss column featuring a post by Leonie Haimson. Les Perelman is an old high school pal, retired director of the multi-discipline...
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Les Perelman responds to Maryland State Superintendent’s sorry defense of...
Les Perelman is retired Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is, not only a good friend, but is a nationally recognized expert on computer-based...
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