[Fredslist] Today's NY Times includes son's research on NY Schools

[Raj Goel, CISSP]

Corey,

  Congrats, proud papa!

   I'm glad to see real research, with hard data, backing up what every kid who's taken the SAT has known.

   If you have past tests, taking them repeatedly increases test scores (OOPS....I just gave away Princeton Review's and Kaplan's business models).

    Between the Mayor's & NY State's adjustment downwards (yay!) Of the scores, better accountability and Waiting For Superman, I suspect we have the foundation for a real revolution in Education.

   I'm all for 
- tougher tests, 
- evaluating schools, principals, teachers, kids AND parents against standard metrics
- breaking the chokehold UFT has on education

(Yes, I AM an advocate for better education in STEM).


"Corey Bearak" <bearak at aol.com> wrote:

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> I posted this to Twitter (Facebook and LinkedIn) earlier today:
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>            Proud parents here.  NY Times page 1 education story featured our son's work http://tiny.cc/w192t -- Check the graphics http://tiny.cc/idwlp
>(The reference is to Jonathan Marc Bearak who when he completes his paperwork will join our Young Pros.)
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>At the very end of the article, it states:
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>"Although the Regents did notimmediately opt to create an entirely new test, Ms. Tisch and DavidSteiner, the new education commissioner, asked Professor Koretz, whohad been rebuffed in previous requests, to analyze the ones that werein use. His conclusion — and that of another researcher, JenniferL. Jennings — was that the tests had become too easy, and hence thescores were inflated. That led the State Education Department toraise the number of correct answers required to pass each test."
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>Jonathan has been working with Ms. Jennings since his undergrad days (One of his Queens College mentors, Prof. Andy Beveridge mentored Jennifer and brought them together), devised the models used in the research including the computer analytical programs and presented papers on the topic at two conferences this past summer.  Jonathan is a PhD Candidate in Sociology/ Institute of Education Sciences Predoctoral Fellow at New York University.  He is a CUNY Macaulay Honors graduate of Queens College.
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