An editorial in the Los Angeles Times implored state education officials to re-instate an erasure analysis of standardized public school tests.
Despite relying on a metric education scholars have called “volatile” and “incomplete,” the Los Angeles Times was given a journalism award for its controversial grading of over 11,000 Los Angeles teachers based on their “value-added” scores.
For the second time in 12 months, the Los Angeles Times published a comprehensive evaluation of teachers within the Los Angeles Unified School District last Sunday using the “value-added model.” But an expert on such evaluations with the American Federation of Teachers tells The American Independent since that metric only More…
The big winner Thursday night might have been U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Clute) — but not because of anything he said or didn’t say during Fox News’ GOP presidential debate in South Carolina. Paul’s committee made hay while the TV camera lights shone, raising more than $1 million in More…
A new Los Angeles Times/University of Southern California poll finds that voters seem likely to vote “no” on Proposition 23, which would overturn California’s landmark climate change law.
The poll comes even as two Texas oil refiners have spent millions of dollars to pass the measure. The companies gave More…
There’s growing attention today to the hypocrisy of Senate Republicans planning to filibuster the nomination of Judge David Hamilton to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and to the Obama administration’s failure to make judicial nominations a higher priority.
NPR’s Nina Totenberg this morning had an excellent roundup More…
Winning his freedom was a big step for Mohammed Jawad, reportedly the youngest prisoner at Guantanamo Bay until he was released in August. But Jawad, who two U.S. judges have said was tortured in U.S. custody, is still suffering from the effects of his treatment during seven years More…
Among the many revelations in the CIA inspector general’s report released last week is this curious fact: the CIA did not have a coherent or consistent policy about the use and legality of sleep deprivation as an interrogation tactic. And it was More…
Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly getting closer to appointing an independent prosecutor to investigate torture under the Bush administration. That’s making some CIA employees nervous.
Greg Miller and Josh Meyer of The Los Angeles Times on Sunday confirmed earlier reports that Holder has reluctantly More…
Well, you’ve got to hand it to President Obama. He doesn’t really worry too much about pleasing the people who most ardently supported him as a presidential candidate. As Spencer wrote, Obama is expected to announce today that he will revive the much-criticized military commissions to try detainees held More…
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