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Martin B. Solomon, Ph.D. Columnist EducationNews.org

Dr. Solomon is a retired University of Kentucky Professor and can be reached at mbsolomon@aol.com

Content Posted by Martin B. Solomon, Ph.D. Columnist EducationNews.org

Manhattan Institute's New, Strange, Appeal for Private Schools

Sol Stern and the Manhattan Institute are now complaining of the demise of 22 Catholic Schools in Brooklyn and Queens because of---get this---competition from the public schools.   That's a new one!

Start Basing Reforms on Facts, Not Hunches

By Marty Solomon
Columnist EducationNews.org
Why do so many educational reforms that are intended to improve education in America turn out to be worse than the problems that they were intended to cure? The reason is that most reforms are not based on research or facts. Instead they are based on the hunch of some politician or business leader. Since everyone is an expert in education, our public schools have been bombarded by literally hundreds of “silver bullets” based on a hunch.

Education Week

By Marty Solomon
Columnist EducationNews.org
The media recently reported high school graduation rates for each U.S. state courtesy of Educational Projects in Education (EPE), publishers of Education Week magazine. But don't be fooled---they are not to be believed. The respected Economic Policy Institute has labeled the report as, "exceedingly inaccurate." Why is it so inaccurate? Please read on.

 

Graduation Rates Gone Wild

By Marty Solomon, Ph.D.
Columnist EducationNews.org
The High School graduation rates that are generally published in the mainstream press are absolutely bogus and are uncritically used by almost everyone without realizing that they are vastly inaccurate. In one week, the Wall Street Journal ran two opinion pieces, one by Chester Finn and another by William McGurn which excoriate American public schools for low graduation rates.

OPEN LETTER TO REP. GEORGE MILLER---CONSIDERATIONS IN REAUTHORIZATION OF NCLB

Martin B. Solomon, Ph.D.
Columnist EdNews.org
Millions of Americans applaud your intention to amend and repair the No Child Left Behind legislation. More flexibility and more sensible approaches to education would be a big help.

HERE ARE SOME THOUGHTS

South Carolina is Thinking Outside the Box

By Marty Solomon
Columnist EdNews.org
Everybody knows that the incessant testing in our public schools brought on by No Child Left Behind is excessive. It has narrowed the curriculum so that important subjects such as civics, history, physical education, art music and shop are being driven out of the schools in favor of drilling, drilling, drilling. Everybody knows that the two-week testing period at the end of the year exhausts both teachers and students but worse, the results are available so late that they are not helpful as a diagnostic tool. Yet, state after state continues down this same, bankrupt, malfunctioning road, year after year.

THE COMMISSION ON NCLB LEFT AMERICA BEHIND

By Marty Solomon
Columnist EdNews.org
It just MUST be that the recent report by the Commission on NCLB was written by Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings and her people. It is not possible that the 15 Commissioners, a group of reasonable people with reasonable amounts of intelligence and who have not been living under a rock for the past 5 years, could not detect some of the really serious problems with NCLB. Even the staunchest supporters such as Checker Finn and his Manhattan Institute have given up on it, realizing that it is a total failure.

The Real Rationale Behind No Child Left Behind

y Marty Solomon - The Reagan administration began a plan to discredit public schools so that the federal government could gradually abolish public education and provide vouchers for private schools at taxpayer expense.  But that plan, including Reagan’s attempt to abolish the Department of Education, never got off the ground.

Dont you know that 2 + 2 = 5?

By Marty Solomon
Some educational reformers keep telling us that 2+2=5. Why don't you get it? They will say it again and again and call you stupid if you don't finally realize that 2+2=5.

The Destruction of Public Schools

By Marty Solomon
What would you think if our schools were told that every student must be able to dunk a basketball and if not, the school will be termed a failing school?

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