Comments on: More Equal and More Excellent? Yes, We Can!

By: What about the smart kids? at Joanne Jacobs

What about the smart kids? at Joanne Jacobs — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:13:02 +0000

[...] Yes we can have more equity and more excellence, writes Jay Greene. [...]

By: Greg Forster

Greg Forster — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:27:54 +0000

Thanks – as you have surmised, my post was not intended to engage with the actual merits of Checker and Mike’s evidence, but to point out that even if we stipulate that evidence, it doesn’t mean what they think it means. Whether we should in fact stipulate it is a question on which I am saying nothing.

By: Parry

Parry — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:16:01 +0000

A post over at The Quick and the Ed (http://www.quickanded.com/2008/06/those-tricky-charts_19.html) suggests that most of the gains of students in the lowest decile occurred pre-NCLB implementation. Not entirely relevant to your main point, but (I thought) worth noting nonetheless.