NEPC’s attempt at strategic nihilism
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) In the American film classic Animal House there is a scene where students smoke marijuana with their English professor, played by Donald Sutherland, and speculate that it...
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling: The Jeb Bush of the NEPC Florida Fantasy
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) The Arizona School Boards Association had their annual law conference last week, and had William Mathis from the Think Tank Review Project present on “Are Things as Sunny...
View ArticleLadner Begins Campaign for a Second Bunkum
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Valerie Strauss put up a post from Anthony Cody denouncing the new ALEC Report Card on American Education, coauthored by your humble blogger. As unhinged screeds that...
View ArticleGrade Retention is Common Nationally but Effective in Florida
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) I came across an interesting study from NCES recently concerning the practice of grade retention that creates yet another hole in NEPC boat regarding their Florida...
View ArticleLadner Celebrates Lifetime Achievement Award!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) I feared that my career had peaked upon receiving a Bunkum Award from the NEA’s rent-a-reactionary academic shop, but today I learned that I can now die happy as the...
View ArticleThe One You Want to Attend
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) A former Al award nominee once sagely informed us: So here it is-the After Party. I have continued to receive congratulations from JPGB readers all week on my humbling...
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