Every evaluation of NAEP's performance levels found them deficient. They are terribly misleading, as the evidence I've presented shows.

It doesn't mean what you say. It really means mastery, which maybe 1/3 of students attain. But thank you for agreeing that scoring basic means students have a 50-50 chance at completing a 4 year degree. It's a good signal.

"Charter school enrollment had been rising rapidly pre-pandemic but then leveled off starting in fall 2020. While fall 2024 enrollment is nearly unchanged relative to 2019, it is 18.9 percent lower than those steep pre-trends had predicted." bit.ly/4509yS4

Tom Loveless I ask people "Would you want to fly in a plane where the pilot's score on the final test was 30%?" They say no. Then I ask, "Would you change your mind if every task was as hard as the challenge that Chesley Sullenberger and Jeffrey Skiles faced in landing US1549 on the Hudson?"

A shout out to Indiana, which reports the % of students scoring proficient in both ELA and math. In 2025, grades 3-8, 40.6% in ELA, 42.1% in math, and 31.2% in both subjects. No, proficient in both subjects will never be used as a real standard for student performance. Utopian.

Real conservatives have never supported tariffs.

Just realised that as of July 24th #JohnCattEd is no more, now fully absorbed into Hachette Learning Professional Development. There's something sad about this - for me at least. The new entity is obviously something to celebrate but I also feel the end of a wonderful thing shouldn't pass without some

Louisiana reports student performance at five levels on the LEAP: Unsatisfactory, Approaching Basic, Basic, Mastery, or Advanced. A lot of states rename "proficient" as "mastery," which is a more accurate term. States actually run school systems, unlike NAGB.

Tom Loveless Yes. And I bet if you offered your services in return, they would politely decline...

I entered the search term "crisis" in Google news several times over the past couple weeks. Every day hundreds of hits. When everything is a crisis, nothing is a crisis. It reminded me of this wonderful NYTimes oped from last fall: nytimes.com/2024/11/21/opi…

"In the future, if we survive that long, historians will marvel at either our capacity to endure so much hardship at once or our ability to label so many disparate problems with the same graying word."

The red-blue state split is about to get quite ugly. | Calif. Democrats reveal map that could gain them five House seats wapo.st/45QH5Qd

One of the most grotesque abuses of power was Trump's pardon of J6 violent assaults on police while currently prosecuting someone who threw a sandwich at police. Gross.

Fun course. 5th hole, par 3, is a blind shot over dunes. Players ring a bell to let those waiting on the tee know that the green has cleared.