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New in the Nonpartisan Education Review:

• Four Foundations Donate to the DC Public Schools, With Conditions (resource)

• 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)

Also in the Nonpartisan Education Review:

• Dancis, College Readiness--A Simple Description (essay), # K-12 "Pretend Mathematics" Curriculum Produces Freshmen Who Know Less Algebra (resource), # All Teachers Can Learn Mathematics; All Students Can Learn Mathematics From Teachers Who Know Mathematics (resource), # U.S. Government should stop financing arithmetic avoidance (essay)

• Stamm, Quality versus quantity (essay), # The Common Sense of Copying (essay), # The Real Source of Success in Japanese Education (essay)

• Oliphant, Standard Worldwide American Dictionary English versus Polyglot America (book) # AlzHope: A Multi-volume eBook Confidence Builder for Alzheimer’s Worriers (book), # Recommended Reading: the National Association of Scholars, and the Limits of Consensualism (review)

• Beals, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (book review)

• Stichter, High Stakes Accountability and High School Student Perceptions of Instructional Climate: A Longitudinal Trend Study (article)

• Junk Science Mom, Nothing Fair about the Fair Test Junk Science (essay), FairTest's Fishy Finances (essay)

• Garelick, Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World (book review), The Common Core Math Standards: When Understanding is Overrated (essay)

ANNOUNCING: New Educational Foundations: A Trans-ideological Journal of Criticism and Review^TM. PREVIEW: article forthcoming for Issue 1:

• Phelps, The Rot Festers: Another National Research Council Report on Testing

ANNOUNCING: Metric Rules, an organization with a mission. "STEM curricula must move towards a greater focus and coherence; we believe that no change would achieve this goal more effectively than removing US customary (inch-pound) units from formal education. A Metric-only approach to STEM education would provide a rational, science-based, intuitive system to learn and build upon. We support metric-only education."

Sadly, one of my few heroes died this summer. But, before his death, Pat Naughtin of Geelong, Australia completed the 100th issue of the Metrication Matters newsletter. A toast to Pat for fighting the good fight for socially beneficial progress and against the glorification of obstinance for its own sake. RP

The Silicon Valley Education Foundation hosts an interesting discussion on test cheating.

ProCon.org posts new issue page on standardized tests. (See also their issue page on teacher tenure.)