The Global Search for Educatio...
“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...
“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 more important questions that countries have to ask themselves are why they are comparing with one another and what they...
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Ben Velderman – MINNEAPOLIS – Any Americans who still believe the education reform movement is just a right-wing ploy to...
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AFT’s Weingarten: “The crucial question we face now is whether we have the political will to move away from the failed policies and...
read moreObama administration backtrack...
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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Brittany Corona – Federal laws and regulations such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) levy a mighty bureaucratic compliance burden...
read moreA Cautionary Tale: Japan’...
…emphasis on economic achievement as the social purpose has left people with few resources with which to confront hard times....
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By Allie Bidwell – Racial achievement gaps among advanced students are sometimes larger than at the bottom of the spectrum...
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Ben Velderman – PARKLAND, Fla. – A pair of Florida state senators are attempting to soothe citizens’ fears over Common Core,...
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By Jack Schneider – For the past two years, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has been striking bargains with state...
read moreAn Interview with Beverly Eakm...
Michael F. Shaughnessy Eastern New Mexico University 1) I understand that you have been making speaking, radio and TV appearances...
read moreAn Interview with Neal McClusk...
Michael F. Shaughnessy – 1) Neal recently, there was a Cato@Liberty post on the latest international achievement outcomes of...
read moreAn Interview with KC Deane and...
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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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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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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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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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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WASHINGTON — By the standards of the decade-old No Child Left Behind law, almost 87 percent of New Mexico’s schools...
read moreAn Interview with Cheryl Willi...
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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