Study: After-School Programs C...
Philanthropic, other organizations should consider providing financial assistance to allow programs to expand into lower-income...
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Study Finds Declining Student ...
Curriculum centralization has failed to improve international competitiveness—it’s time to re-think curriculum standards-based reform...
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BOSTON – A new video highlights the work of Will Fitzhugh, who for years has operated The Concord Review, a journal that...
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Read op-eds about the film, by Raymond Flynn, former Ambassador to the Holy See, and Pioneer’s Jamie Gass in The Daily Caller, The...
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Read news coverage: “Report warns of falling test scores” (Salem News, Newburyport Daily News, Gloucester Times). Both 2010 and 2017...
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On Tuesday, April 4th, at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate in Boston, Pioneer Institute held a forum (see press...
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Massachusetts should be cautious in updating its highly regarded history standards BOSTON – As Massachusetts sets about the...
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“It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery,” British dramatist John Gay wrote about Jonathan Swift’s 1726...
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Singular focus on workforce development conflicts with Catholic schools’ academic, spiritual and moral mission BOSTON – The...
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Thomas Birmingham – It’s often said that what isn’t tested isn’t taught. At the same time, recent federal laws compel far too...
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by Richard Phelps – Many billions have been spent, and continue to be spent, promoting the Common Core Standards and their...
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This February marks the 190th anniversary of James Fenimore Cooper’s historical novel “The Last of the Mohicans,” a masterpiece of...
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by Richard P. Phelps – The Fordham Institute has long been at work on a study of the relative quality of tests produced by the...
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Attacks on MCAS for not producing “college-ready” graduates demonstrates lack of understanding of test’s purpose BOSTON – Political...
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An op-ed in Tuesday’s Boston Globe urges Massachusetts policymakers to adopt the Common Core-aligned PARCC test because MCAS is...
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Study: MCAS Less Expensive, More Rigorous and Provides Better Information than PARCC Authors call for state to phase out both PARCC...
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With Common Core Collapsing, New Scholarly Book Informs Debate about Academic Quality, Cost, and Illegal Federal Role in K-12...
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The release of 2015 MCAS results together with a patchwork of preliminary 2015 PARCC testing results provides little new information...
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By Jamie Gass – Oh, what sorrow, Pity, pain, That tears and blood Should mix like rain In Mississippi! And terror, fetid hot,...
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Program would offer vouchers of $6,000 to $8,000 at no net cost to taxpayers BOSTON – In the wake of a North Carolina court...
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