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Nine Questions: What Does It Even Mean to Oppose the Common Core?
What does it mean when Ted Cruz, or Rand Paul, or Bobby Jindal says he “opposes” the Common Core?
Portfolio Districts: One Ring to Rule Them All
I am wary of portfolio districts, mayoral takeovers, and other proposals for a super-regulator to govern all choice and traditional schools.
Behind the Headline: True or False? Free And Reduced-Price Lunch = Poor
People often use students eligibility for free or reduced-price lunches as a proxy for poverty, but is that a good metric, wonders Will Huntsberry of nprED.
Model Citizens
Arizona became the first state to make passing the U.S. Citizenship Test a high school graduation requirement.
What We’re Watching: Is the New GED Test an Improvement or Setback?
PBS NewsHour looks into the changes made to the GED in order to make it Common Core compliant.
Improving Educational Options for Georgia Children
Raising the cap on Georgia’s scholarship tax credit program is an ideal way to bring freedom and excellence to K-12 education.
ESEA Reauthorization: Some Fixes to the Alexander Draft
Many bloggers have already pronounced their likes and dislikes of Senator Alexander’s ESEA reauthorization draft, and we would like to add to that discussion.
The Case Against Federal Accountability Mandates in Education
Instead of demanding that states intervene in failing schools, allow students to escape the worst schools through the powerful mechanism of parental choice.
To Empower State and Local Leaders, ESEA Reauthorization Should Include Competitive Grants
Competitive grant programs do not weaken local leadership. They strengthen local leadership much more effectively than block grants do.
How Charters Are Innovating on Pensions
Charter schools recognize that current teachers are increasingly mobile, so they offer teachers portable benefits.
Behind the Headline: How Much Snow It Takes to Cancel School in Each State
As a major snowstorm sweeps across New England, this map shows how many inches of snow it takes for school to be cancelled in each state.
How New Funding Models Can Unlock Innovations in Pedagogy
Course Access policies may be paving the way to wholly new learning experiences for students.
What We’re Watching: A Second Senate Committee Hearing on No Child Left Behind
On Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 10 a.m., the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions will hear testimony about supporting teachers and school leaders.
Good Reads for National School Choice Week
These articles illuminate some elements of the world of school choice that don’t always get the most attention.
Behind the Headline: What the New Senate Education Chair Thinks About No Child Left Behind
Sen. Lamar Alexander spoke with Time about his views on fixing NCLB. Alexander is still struggling to make a decision on whether a revised NCLB should include annual tests required by the federal government.
On Designing K-12 Education Savings Accounts
Education savings accounts operate like the “partial voucher” that Milton Friedman envisioned more than a decade ago.
What We’re Watching: A Conversation With US Senator Tim Scott
AEI hosted Sen. Tim Scott (R – S.C.) as well as Thomas Stewart and Patrick Wolf, the authors of a new book The School Choice Journey: School Vouchers and the Empowerment of Urban Families.
Don’t Confuse Jargon with Rigor
Elementary school English language arts classrooms have long been in the thrall of nonsensical jargon.
What We’re Watching: Condi Rice on Education As National Security Challenge
Jeb Bush announced yesterday that he was handing over control of his education foundation to Condoleezza Rice. In this PBS interview from March 2012, Rice discussed a report linking education to national security.
Stump Speech Contest: What Members of Congress Should Say About Testing
Here are some “talking points” that members of Congress might use when the testing issue comes up at town hall meetings and the like.
What We’re Watching: Doug Lemov on Teach Like a Champion 2.0
The event featuring Doug Lemov which was scheduled for Monday, Jan. 26, at 5 p.m. has been postponed.
Will the Common Core Lead to More Schools Labeled Failing? Not Really.
Since the Obama Administration has quietly transitioned to a normative accountability system, where schools are compared to each other rather than to some pre-determined “proficiency” benchmark, it doesn’t matter if all students appear to perform worse this year.
Fixing No Child Left Behind: Oral Testimony of Martin West
Congress should maintain the law’s current annual testing requirements while restoring to states virtually all decisions about the design of their accountability systems.
Views from Private Schools
Policymakers seeking to improve the quantity and quality of educational options for families through private school choice programs should consider the opinions of the school leaders poised to serve those customers.
What We’re Watching: Poverty and Public Schools
Nina Rees of the NAPCS and Mary Cathryn Ricker of the AFT will talk about poverty as part of a Communities in Schools Leadership Town Hall on Thursday, Jan. 22, at 9:30 a.m.
2015: The Year of Curriculum- Based Reform?
Curriculum and content matter—and for no one more than poor kids who get too little of that knowledge and vocabulary at home.
Can an Online College Course Live Up to Students’ Expectations?
What we learned by teaching “Saving Schools: History, Politics and Policy in U. S. Education,” our first Massive Open Online Course
Timely Ohio Report Could Change the ESEA Testing Debate
A new report from the Ohio Department of Education looks at the number of hours students spend preparing for and taking tests.
What We’re Watching: Rep. John Kline on Education Reform in the 114th Congress
On Thursday, American Enterprise Institute will host a conversation with U.S. Representative John Kline (R-MN) on the direction the new Congress will take in education.
What We’re Listening To: Senate Committee Hearing on Fixing NCLB
The Senate HELP committee will look at how to fix the testing and accountability provisions of No Child Left Behind.
A Rescue Plan for the Black Family
Far from addressing the marriage problem, the federal government exacerbated it.
What We’re Watching: More on Testing, Accountability and the New ESEA
Mike Petrilli and Mike McShane discussed the Senate hearing on testing and accountability in a new episode of “A Fern Between Two Mikes”
Behind the Headline: A Rescue Plan for the Black Family
“As we celebrate the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s birth, we should ask why so many of the problems against which he struggled — segregation, poverty, persistent racial gaps in education and income — remain so much a part of American life,” writes Paul Peterson in an op-ed in the New York Daily News.
Exit, Voice, Loyalty—and the Common Core
Increasingly, parents and taxpayers view the public schools as an unresponsive bureaucracy carrying out edicts from distant capitals.
Optimistic Predictions Notwithstanding, Common Core Faces Brutal 2015
Common Core proponents need an updated advocacy playbook. The political terrain of 2010 and 2015 are very, very different.
Grade-Span Accountability Is A Bad Idea: Just Ask CAP and the AFT
Rather than having regular check-ups on student progress, with relatively low stakes on those results, we’d have much higher stakes attached to a smaller number of test scores.
Is It Quality Or Quantity That Counts?
Ah, January is upon us: The wind is howling, the thermometer is plummeting, and we are greeted by the nineteenth consecutive edition of Quality Counts, Education Week’s compilation of mostly useful data, analysis, rankings and commentaries.
Behind the Headline: Governor Trumpets Reforms – and Makes Surprising Pitch for School Vouchers
In his State of the State address earlier this week, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie called on the legislature to pass a bill to create an Opportunity Scholarship program for low-income students to be funded through state tax credits.
Carmen Fariña’s War on Evidence
While running the nation’s largest school system, Carmen Farina has made a growing list of decisions based not on empirical evidence, but on the chancellor’s personal preference.
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