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Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Accountability was widely embraced as a reform strategy in the 1990s, but skepticism has grown about whether the approach is working. Amid mounting evidence that state-level accountability systems have been built on wildly differing expectations for student performance, there has been increased interest in the development of common academic standards that could be adopted by all 50 states.
Government and Politics
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School Policy
Could We Depoliticize School Choice?
As a long-time student of school choice (and, full disclosure, an adviser to Romney’s education team) I anticipate the governor is in for a bit of moral outrage.
Inside Schools
Choosing Blindly
How can we tolerate ignorance on something that is as critical to student learning as instructional materials?
Government and Politics
A Race to Fix Education Governance?
How very refreshing, even exhilarating, the inclusion of superintendents and boards in a results-based accountability system.
Government and Politics
A Race to Fix Education Governance?
How very refreshing, even exhilarating, the inclusion of superintendents and boards in a results-based accountability system.
The Romney Education Plan: Replacing Federal Overreach on Accountability with Federal Overreach on School Choice
A better idea might be to take a page from the Obama Administration handbook and make funding portability voluntary.
The Ballot Box: A Tool for Education Reform?
Stand for Children made a prudent choice by taking to the ballot box a proposal which ties hiring, firing, and transfer decisions to teacher effectiveness.
When Washington Focuses on Schools
Uncle Sam is dreadful at micromanaging what actually happens in schools and classrooms. What he’s best at is setting agendas and driving priorities.
A States’ Rights Insurrection Led by…California?
Three cheers for California’s governor, state superintendent, and state board chair, for applying for a waiver from NCLB that doesn’t kowtow to Washington.
Inside Schools
Choosing Blindly
How can we tolerate ignorance on something that is as critical to student learning as instructional materials?
Teaching the Teachers
Achievement Network offers support for data-driven instruction
Dumbing Down the GPA: It’s the Unsophisticated Bright Kid who Suffers
It is not the under-achieving students in urban centers who perpetuate the ongoing crisis in American education. They are simply doing their best to survive the challenges of family, neighborhood and circumstance. The threats come from the mindless educational potentates who have captured control of the best public schools in the country.
Do Schools Begin Too Early?
The effect of start times on student achievement
Great Teaching
Measuring its effects on students’ future earnings
School Policy
Could We Depoliticize School Choice?
As a long-time student of school choice (and, full disclosure, an adviser to Romney’s education team) I anticipate the governor is in for a bit of moral outrage.
What We’re Watching: WSJ on Romney’s Pro-Choice Education Plan
Mitt Romney’s education reform platform is discussed by the Wall Street Journal’s David Feith.
Michigan’s Chartering Strategy
Choice and competition are good for authorizers, too
The Romney Education Plan: Replacing Federal Overreach on Accountability with Federal Overreach on School Choice
A better idea might be to take a page from the Obama Administration handbook and make funding portability voluntary.
Tax Credit Scholarships Need a Critical, Not Hostile, Eye
It’s hard to get past the New York Times’s animus toward anything “private” or profit-seeking in the realm of K-12 education.
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