Illusion Motivates Education Reform - Tultican

https://tultican.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/illusion-motivates-education-reform/

"‘Education entrepreneurs’, because they have no respect for education professionals, are doomed to reinventing the wheel. The truth is that even with the tremendous financial and political support their movement secured; the results have been mixed at best and as far as improving education practices they are abysmal failures."

Why the conventional wisdom on schooling is all wrong

"It’s gratifying to see the growing student, teacher, administrator, and parental resistance to the present misnamed “reform” effort. The rate at which testing is wasting the potential of kids’ minds that don’t work in standardized, text-centric ways, is inexcusable. But resistance would be far more effective if demands to stop high-stakes testing were accompanied by demands to get serious about improving thinking skills."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/04/07/why-the-conventional-wisdom-on-schooling-is-all-wrong/