CONTENT - NONPARTISAN EDUCATION REVIEW

All Content (in reverse chronological order)

2011 (Volume 7):

• Ghaemi, The Exploration of Multilingualism: Development of research on L3, multilingualism and multiple language acquisition (book review)
• Dancis, U.S. Government should stop financing arithmetic avoidance (essay)
Point-Counterpoint: Educators, Cheating, & Testing Standards:
• 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)
• Stamm, Quality versus quantity (essay)
• Oliphant, Standard Worldwide American Dictionary English versus Polyglot America: A Survival Kit for Personal-Growth Learners (book)
• Stamm, The Real Source of Success in Japanese Education (essay)
• Beals, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (book review)
• Phelps, The Effect of Testing on Achievement: Meta-Analyses and Research Summary, 1910–2010: Source List, Effect Sizes, and References for Quantitative Studies (resource)
• Phelps, The Effect of Testing on Achievement: Meta-Analyses and Research Summary, 1910–2010: Source List, Effect Sizes, and References for Survey Studies (resource)
• Phelps, The Effect of Testing on Achievement: Meta-Analyses and Research Summary, 1910–2010: Source List, Effect Sizes, and References for Qualitative Studies (resource)
• Oliphant, Learning the Lord’s Prayer in Gothic: A Personal Best Achievement for American High School Students (resource)

2010 (Volume 6):
• Stichter, High Stakes Accountability and High School Student Perceptions of Instructional Climate: A Longitudinal Trend Study (article)
• JunkScienceMom, Nothing Fair about the Fair Test Junk Science (essay)
• JunkScienceMom, FairTest's Fishy Finances (essay)
• Stamm, The Common Sense of Copying (essay)
• Oliphant, For-Profit Colleges and American Salesmanship — A Unique Opportunity (essay)
• Oliphant, AlzHope: A Multi-volume eBook Confidence Builder for Alzheimer’s Worriers (book)
• Oliphant, GI Bill Students and Their Equal Opportunity to Fail (essay)
• Oliphant, Sina English and American Dictionaries: A New Partnership (essay)
• Oliphant, Too Clever by Half: The Economist Is Bullying Americans into Intellectual Submission (essay)
• Garelick, Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World (book review)
• Klein, What Do the NAEP Math Tests Really Measure? (resource)
• Phelps, The Source of Lake Wobegon [updated] (article)
• Garelick, The Common Core Math Standards: When Understanding is Overrated (essay)
• Phelps, The Effect of Testing on Student Achievement: Meta-analyses and Summary of the Research (resource)
• Phelps. L'effet de tests standardisés sur lesrésultats scolaires des élèves : Méta-analyses et résumé de la recherche (resource)
• Oliphant, BigVocab: A Dictionary-based Guide to Metrologically Authoritative Vocabulary Testing and Learning (resource)
• Shawer, The Relationships between EFL Student Cognitive Functioning, Curriculum Diversification and Ethnic Culture Differences (article)
• Rose, Making Education History on the Internet (testimonial)
• Garelick, The Separate Path and the Well Traveled Road (essay)
• Lampley, Graduate Degree Programs: Plain Vanilla, Chocolate Fudge,
  or a Cherry on Top? (essay)
• Oliphant, Speak Sharp: How to Be an Effective User of Standard Worldwide American Pronunciation English (resource)
• Lampley & Johnson, Mentoring At-risk Youth: Improving Academic Achievement in Middle School Students (article)
• Oliphant, Recitation Whiz: A Structural Method for Memorizing Poems and Other Texts (resource)

2009 (Volume 5):
• Rasian, Higher Education Governance in Developing Countries, Challenges and Recommendations: Iran as a case study (essay)
• Oliphant, Shakespeare in the Head for Health: A Reality Orientation Option for Alzheimer's Worriers (resource)
• Phelps, Worse than Plagiarism? Firstness Claims & Dismissive Reviews (slide show)(resource)
• Garelick, Discovery learning in math: Exercises versus problems (essay)
• Oliphant, WordEdge®: A Career Mobility Guide to High Speed Dictionary-Based Electronic Learning and Testing, (resource)

2008 (Volume 4):
• Phelps, The Role and Importance of Standardized Testing in the World of Teaching and Training (essay)
• Haider, Challenges in Higher Education: Special Reference to Pakistan and South Asian Developing Countries (essay)
• Oliphant, Should Americans over Fifty Try to Avoid Alzheimer’s Disease? — A Positive View (essay)
  
  2007 (Volume 3):
• Klein, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, Mathematics SL (test review)
• Klein, Advanced Placement Calculus AB Evaluation (test review)
• Ligon, Why Eva Baker Doesn't Seem to Understand Accountability: The Politimetrics of Accountability (article)
• Scheuring-Leipold, The thirst for connection: Preparing future teachers for a service profession (testimonial)
• Franco, Reauthorization of NCLB: Time to Reconsider the Scientifically Based Research Requirement (essay)
• Fragale, The Showdown: Challenging students to achieve excellence on state tests (testimonial)
• Kramer, The 25% Solution: Improving Instruction by Improving the NCLB Tests (essay)
• Sireci, Are Educational Tests Inherently Evil? (essay)
• Oliphant, An Access-Dictionary of Internationalist High Tech Latinate English (resource)
• Phelps, The Source of Lake Wobegon (slide show)(resource)
• Naughtin, What is the Cost of Not Going Metric? (essay)
• Scott, When an Intent to Protect becomes a License to Harm (essay)
• Oliphant, Dictionary Based Learning — The Personal-Best Route to Vocabulary Power, Reading Comprehension, and High Stakes Test Taking Success (resource)
• Throne, Distance Learning in Einstein's Fourth Dimension (essay)
• Naughtin, Approaches to Metrication # Metrication - Who is Responsible # USA Decimilisation and Metrication (resources)

2006 (Volume 2):
• Weathers, The Freshman Grade Academy: A Program to Facilitate the Smooth Transition of Students from the Junior High Learning Environment to the High School Learning Environment (testimonial)
• Fasko, Special Education Services and Response to Intervention: What, Why, and How? (essay)
• Garelick, A Tale of Two Countries and One School District (essay)
• Phelps, A Wonderful African Success Story (testimonial)
• Hambleton, Update on MCAS: Is it Working? Is it Fair? (article)
• Garelick, A Textbook Case in Textbook Adoption (essay)
• Zhang, Eyes Talk (testimonial)
• Honeycutt, Loomis, & Brulle, An Analysis of Merit Pay Reforms (essay)
• Stotsky, Why American Students Do Not Learn to Read Very Well: The Unintended Consequences of Title II and Teacher Testing (article)
  
  Point-Counterpoint: The Lake Wobegon Effect
• Phelps, A Tribute to John J. Cannell, M.D.
• Phelps, Further Comment on "Lake Woebegon: Twenty Years Later"
• McRae, Comment on "Lake Woebegone: Twenty Years Later"
• Cannell, Lake Woebegone: Twenty Years Later
  
  2005 (Volume 1):
• Phelps, The Source of Lake Wobegon (article)
• Stotsky, Bradley, & Warren, School-Related Influences on Grade 8 Mathematics Performance in Massachusetts (article)

Resources Archives:
• Collins, J.V., A Metrical Tragedy
• Driscoll; Berger; Hambleton; Keller; Maloy, Hart, Oh, and Getis; Bowles; Gougeon; McDermott; Churchill, Education Reform: Ten Years after the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993
• Phelps, Dietrich, Phillips, McCormack, Higher Education: An International Perspective (book)
• Phelps, The Achievement Benefits of Standardized Testing # Forty Years of Public Opinion on Standardized Testing # Economic Perspectives on Standardized Testing
• Raimi, Academic Dishonesty in College
• Rogosa, Statistical Blunders by the Proponents and Opponents of Accountability # Irrelevance of Reliability Coefficients to Accountability Systems: Statistical Disconnect in Kane-Staiger "Volatility in School Test Scores"
  

Foundational Essays

Nonpartisan Education Review Board Members on Standards, Curriculum and Instruction, Censorship and Transparency

Standards:

• Bibliophobia (Fitzhugh) # Review of the Minnesota Academic Standards in Social Studies (Martel) # The Whole Nine Yards (Fitzhugh) # A Review of the "Greene Method" for Calculating Graduation Rates (Phelps) # Luxury or Necessity? Term Papers in U.S. High Schools (Fitzhugh) # Characteristics of an Effective Testing System (Phelps) # High Mediocrity (Fitzhugh) # Dropping the Ball on Dropouts (Phelps) # Know Nothings II (Fitzhugh) # Ready or Not (Fitzhugh) # No Child Left Behind, No Diploma Left Unquestioned - The Social Impact of Standardized Achievement Testing (Oliphant) # Romantic Fiction (Fitzhugh) # A Review of Inside the SAT (Carson) # Double Vision (Fitzhugh) # Raising the Grade: How High School Reform Can Save Our Youth and Our Nation, by Bob Wise [book review] (Phelps)

Curriculum and Instruction:

• Peremptory Challenges (Fitzhugh) # Why Reading Teachers Are Not Trained to use a Research-Based Pedagogy (Stotsky) # Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us, by Daniel Koretz [book review] (Staradamskis) # Trivial Pursuit (Fitzhugh) # High School Size and the Education of All Students in 9-12: What the Research Suggests (Stotsky) # Testing Opponents Relentless in New York City (Carson) # Writing Report (Fitzhugh) # If Certain Education Theorists Trained Olympic Athletes (Phelps) # The State of the Term Paper (Fitzhugh) # Pre-Disaster Educational Planning and Personal-Best Learning (Oliphant) # Multiple Alternatives (Fitzhugh)

Censorship and Transparency [or, the lack thereof]

• The Dissolution of Education Knowledge (pdf) (Phelps) # Beardsley Ruml and the Rise of Commodity Education (Oliphant) # Educational Testing Policy: Stuck Between Two Political Parties (Phelps) # Accountability, responsibility and failed student achievement: Who is responsible? Who is accountable? How can it be fixed? [Washington, DC] (Martel) # Censorship Has Many Fathers (Phelps) # School Governance, Academic Accountability, and Student Achievement [Washington, DC] (Martel) # Standardized Testing, Regrettable Food, Urine Therapy, and Trichotillomania (Phelps) # Phantom Baccalaureates and the Princeton Review (Oliphant) # The Rigor of Scientifically-Based Research May be Mortis (Phelps) # High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion, and Graduation, by the National Research Council [book review] (Phelps)