[Phys-L] Phys-L: Reyna Defends NCLB

[Richard Hake <rrhake@EARTHLINK.NET>]

According to a report by Susan Lang (2005) in the Cornell University
Chronicle, Valerie Reyna defends the No Child Left Behind act in a
new book "The No Child Left Behind Legislation: Educational Research
and Federal Funding: Psychological Perspectives on Contemporary
Educational issues" Carlson & Levin (2005)].

Reyna <http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/bio.cfm?netid=vr53> is a
professor of human development at Cornell University and a former
federal policy-maker. According to Lang's report, Reyna "provides an
insider's view on the key role played by scientific research in NCLB
and in the reforms that have followed."

According to the description of Carlson & Levin (2005) at Amazon.com
<http://tinyurl.com/d9vhd>: "[The volume highlights] a provocative
focal article on issues associated with federally funded,
scientifically-based education research by Valerie Reyna, the former
senior research advisor of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES),
with commentaries by a varied group of distinguished responders!"

I have not read Carlson & Levin (2005), but Reyna's outlook appears
to be diametrically opposed to my own, as indicated in "Will the NCLB
Tend to Propagate California's Direct Science Instruction Throughout
the Entire Nation?" [Hake (2004)], and "Will the No Child Left Behind
Act Promote Direct Instruction of Science?"[Hake (2005)].

I thank Keith Tipton, manager of the Physhare list, for calling my
attention to Lang's report.

Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
<rrhake@earthlink.net>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>


REFERENCES
Carlson, J.S. & J.R. Levin, eds.  2005. "The No Child Left Behind
Legislation: Educational Research and Federal Funding: Psychological
Perspectives on Contemporary Educational issues." Information Age
Publishing, Amazon.com information at <http://tinyurl.com/d9vhd>.

Hake, R.R. 2004. "Will the NCLB Tend to Propagate California's Direct
Science Instruction Throughout the Entire Nation?" online at
<http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0501&L=pod&O=D&P=12783>.
Post of 14 Jan 2005 to AERA-C, AERA-D, AERA-G, AERA-H, AERA-J,
AERA-K, AERA-L, AP-Physics, ASSESS, Biopi-L, Chemed-L, Edstat-L,
EvalTalk, Math-Learn, Math-Teach, Phys-L, Physhare, PhysLrnR, POD, &
STLHE-L.

Hake, R.R. 2005. "Will the No Child Left Behind Act Promote Direct
Instruction of Science?" Am. Phys. Soc. 50: 851 (2005); APS March
Meeting, Los Angles, CA. 21-25 March; online as ref. 36 at
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>, or download directly by
clicking on
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/WillNCLBPromoteDSI-3.pdf> (256
kB).

Lang, S.S. 2005. "No Child Left Behind Act can improve schools,
Cornell professor asserts in new book," Cornell University Chronicle,
online at
<http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec05/no.child.laws.ssl.html>.
Amazon.com information at <http://tinyurl.com/d9vhd>.
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