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By: ReadingFirst, NCLB, School Accountability, and our Educational Future » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:23:34 +0000

[...] Thanks to Doug Noon for bringing Susan Harman and Deborah Meier’s new article series “How to Resist the Growing Threat to U.S. Education” to my attention this evening. As I listened to Scott Elias and Melinda Miller’s “Testing 1-2-3″ Practical Principals’ podcast from May 2nd on my commute to and from work today I kept thinking to myself, “How could so many many smart people elected to lead our nation take us down the forsaken path which has led to so much unnecessary suffering and misdirected energy in our classrooms with high stakes testing?” In line with thoughts I first heard articulated well by Dr. David Berliner in 2006, this article series by Harman and Meier offers a much-needed explanation of the educational policy decisions we’ve seen in the past decade which have ushered in the dark age of NCLB. [...]

By: I didn't drop it, did you drop it, who did drop it? | In Practice

I didn't drop it, did you drop it, who did drop it? | In Practice — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:25:08 +0000

[...] Noon, in another well written piece dissects the problems with Reading First in Borderland » Blog Archive » Reclaiming Education. The landmark federal legislation provides funding for reading programs that adhere to the feds [...]

By: Alice Mercer

Alice Mercer — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:58:57 +0000

It’s not one minute of nonsense, because if you’re doing it for your whole class, that 30 x 1, x 5 times a year, which comes out to 150 minutes, but with transitions, it comes out to more like 2-3 minutes per child, so 300 minutes is more like it. The classes are smaller, but the time test more often in primary.

By: Doug Noon

Doug Noon — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:16:42 +0000

Ken Goodman calls Dibels One Minute of Nonsense. Indeed.

By: Daniel Ferguson

Daniel Ferguson — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:12:16 +0000

Doug,

And it should be mentioned that the only foundation of research on reading instruction DIBELS authors use is the National Reading Panel. DIBELS was approved as a scientifically based reading assessment (the author of DIBELS was on the committee that deemed it so), and DIBELS was used as a reading assessment in 45 states through Reading First funding. All in the name of “scientifically based reading research”!