The Global Search for Educatio...

Oct 18, 2016 by

The Global Search for Education: Just Imagine Secretary Fadel

“We need to re-examine college entrance requirements (and their tests).  They hold change hostage to antiquated and incomplete...

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The Global Search for Educatio...

Oct 5, 2016 by

The Global Search for Education: Just Imagine Secretary Ravitch

“In my view, historians will look on this era as a period of failed mandates, of willful and ignorant attacks on public education and...

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The Global Search for Educatio...

Jan 14, 2014 by

The Global Search for Education: World Test?

“The more important questions that countries have to ask themselves are why they are comparing with one another and what they...

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Pro-labor activist nation’s mo...

Dec 5, 2013 by

Pro-labor activist nation’s most effective teacher

Ben Velderman  – MINNEAPOLIS – Any Americans who still believe the education reform movement is just a right-wing ploy to...

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AFT President Weingarten on PI...

Dec 3, 2013 by

AFT President Weingarten on PISA 2012 International Results

AFT’s Weingarten: “The crucial question we face now is whether we have the political will to move away from the failed policies and...

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Obama administration backtrack...

Dec 2, 2013 by

Obama administration backtracks on teacher equity

By Tara Kini – I’m confused. I believed the Obama administration when it said it cared about getting all kids access to good...

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Feds Bureaucratic Compliance o...

Nov 27, 2013 by

Feds Bureaucratic Compliance onto States

Brittany Corona – Federal laws and regulations such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) levy a mighty bureaucratic compliance burden...

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A Cautionary Tale: Japan’...

Nov 25, 2013 by

A Cautionary Tale: Japan’s Cutthroat School System

…emphasis on economic achievement as the social purpose has left people with few resources with which to confront hard times....

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Education Reform May Leave Hig...

Nov 17, 2013 by

Education Reform May Leave High-Performing Students Behind

By Allie Bidwell – Racial achievement gaps among advanced students are sometimes larger than at the bottom of the spectrum...

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Florida lawmakers offer a clum...

Nov 14, 2013 by

Florida lawmakers offer a clumsy defense of Common Core

Ben Velderman – PARKLAND, Fla. – A pair of Florida state senators are attempting to soothe citizens’ fears over Common Core,...

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The school data problem: what ...

Nov 6, 2013 by

The school data problem: what we have vs. what we need

By Jack Schneider – For the past two years, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has been striking bargains with state...

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An Interview with Beverly Eakm...

Nov 1, 2013 by

An Interview with Beverly Eakman: Speaking on the Common Core of Standards

Michael F. Shaughnessy Eastern New Mexico University 1) I understand that you have been making speaking, radio and TV appearances...

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An Interview with Neal McClusk...

Dec 15, 2012 by

An Interview with Neal McCluskey: Are the Scores the Same, Significantly Better, Regressing to the Mean, or Slumping Overall?

Michael F. Shaughnessy – 1) Neal recently, there was a Cato@Liberty post on the latest international achievement outcomes of...

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An Interview with KC Deane and...

Dec 6, 2012 by

An Interview with KC Deane and Allison Kimmel: What’s Next for Education

Michael F. Shaughnessy – 1)      First of all, you have recently released a white paper on Education. How did this come about...

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The Global Search for Educatio...

Oct 28, 2012 by

The Global Search for Education: The Education Debate 2012 – Linda Darling-Hammond

More than 8 in 10 Americans say education is an issue that is extremely or very important to them, according to an Associated...

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Fighting the Common Core with ...

Oct 14, 2012 by

Fighting the Common Core with the Facts

by Donna Garner 10.14.12 What should your response be when you are told that it is a great idea to nationalize our public schools by...

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Reforming American Public Educ...

Dec 28, 2011 by

Reforming American Public Education in 2012: The States to Watch

by RiShawn Biddle – Certainly discussions about the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act will be one of the big...

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A Solution for Gotham’s ...

Jul 28, 2011 by

A Solution for Gotham’s Reading Woes

E. D. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge program shows real results in the city. The most reliable predictor of future academic achievement for...

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With No Child Left Behind Over...

Jul 27, 2011 by

With No Child Left Behind Overhaul Stalled, More Schools ‘Failing’

WASHINGTON — By the standards of the decade-old No Child Left Behind law, almost 87 percent of New Mexico’s schools...

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An Interview with Cheryl Willi...

Jul 21, 2011 by

An Interview with Cheryl Williams: Learning First and Foremost

Michael F. Shaughnessy Eastern New Mexico University Portales, New Mexico First of all, what exactly is Learning First, and how come...

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