“When high stakes are attached to tests, people often act in ways that compromise educational values. High-stakes testing incentivizes narrowing of the curriculum, gaming the system, teaching to bad tests and cheating.”
That passage, taken from a July 1 letter education historian Diane Ravitch wrote to the New York Times More…
This week, The Washington Independent is featuring a series of investigative stories on the rebuilding of New Orleans, five years after Hurricane Katrina. Find all of them here.
A few weeks ago, in Henry County, Ga., a woman named Angela Wilson led a local television anchor into her camping More…
Today at TWI, we started running a series of stories on New Orleans five years after Katrina, trying to investigate some of the overlooked, unexpected consequences of the devastating hurricane. First up is Andrew Restuccia’s investigation of longstanding problems with landfills and trash disposal in the New Orleans flood More…
This week, The Washington Independent is featuring a series of investigative stories on the rebuilding of New Orleans, five years after Hurricane Katrina. Find all of them here.
In the late summer of 1965 — almost 40 years to the day before Hurricane Katrina — Betsy, a Category Four More…
President Obama is going to New Orleans Aug. 29 to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, according to the White House.
The White House:
The visit will include remarks by the President at Xavier University of Louisiana. Members of the President’s Cabinet who have worked to speed recovery and
The militant triviality of Washington personalities is enough to make me break character and go outside of my national-security lane. Andy Card, chief of staff to George W. Bush, is whining that Barack Obama doesn’t wear a jacket in the Oval Office.
Hurricane Katrina victims take note. Michael Brown is safe.
A series of wind-whipped wildfires north of Boulder, Colo., have forced the evacuation of more than 11,500 residents — including Brown, the vilified ex-Federal Emergency Management Agency head.
White House chief of staff Josh Bolten and national security adviser Steve Hadley somehow got it into their heads that insisting George W. Bush is a hands-on and pro-active leader is a wise legacy-building move.
This must be that famed strategery.
If Bush was an informed and judicious decision-maker More…
Reuters has a “Factbox” today outlining the threat of Hurricane Gustav to U.S. oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Gustav presents the first major threat since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which caused oil spills in 2005.
Here are some highlights from Reuters’ highlights of the energy situation: All More…
TOLEDO, Ohio — The Sarah Palin Introductory Tour continued through the weekend with stops at a pair of independent-league ballparks in Washington, Pa., a small city 30 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, and the St. Louis exurb of O’Fallon, Mo. The former rally was essentially a replay of the event in More…
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