Oh Gadfly, how thrilling
Whew, it’s quite an issue this week, folks. Announcing the release of our Red Tape Report pilot study on—you guessed it—red tape, Amber explains the study’s framework and invites your feedback (email all comments to redtapereport@gmail.com). Then Stafford investigates the GPA and some worrisome recent conversations on its calculation; perchance it’s time for a standard GPA metric? What would such a metric look like? These questions and more... Further in, you’ll find Massachusetts ratcheting up its graduation standards and a look at the much hallowed, but perhaps biased, NACAC study on standardized tests for college admission. Add to all this a rather stupendous podcast, and the flatscreen TVs (and on-site dry cleaning) of the LAUSD headquarters, and you may have your socks blown right off! It’s all here.
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October 5th, 2008 at 1:59 am
This is funny.
One of the consequences of too much centralization is too many people dedicated to wonkery, leading to too much noise, leading to noise studies and reports.
The main trouble with education is that we have too many dopes at every level, and none of them are smart enough to figure out a solution that the others can comprehend.
It’s become nearly impossible to have a conversation about teaching and learning anywhere.