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Want To Improve Teacher Training? Stop Playing Games With Teacher Standards
Two U.S. senators plan to revise the federal Higher Education Act to make it ready for re-authorization. Should we find…
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How You Lost Control of Your Local Schools
How did unconstitutional four-year state education plans get to be legal? Or are they? In their new book, Deconstructing the Administrative…
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Common Core Is Dead, Long Live Common Core
We live in a remarkable age. Even when Florence Foster Jenkins sang in a packed Carnegie Hall decades ago, music critics were…
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Did Teachers Really Used To Make Kids Memorize Without Understanding?
Common Core supporters have been asserting that before Common Core's emphasis on skills, all our teachers did for 50 years…
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Are Education Achievement Gaps Based on Poverty?
Are "achievement gaps" caused by K-12 schools and the teachers in them? Many policymakers, including those at the U.…
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How to Fool the Public, One Education Test At A Time
What do you call the seller if you label new English Language Arts test items as more rigorous than those on the…
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‘Diversity’: The Major Obstacle in Strengthening Teacher Quality
As Dan Goldhaber noted in his article in the Spring 2016 issue of Education Next: "Of the characteristics [of teacher quality]…
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Congress on Education: If It Don’t Work, Don’t Fix It
So far as we know, low achievement hasn't been remedied by any of the strategies or programs that educators or…
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Want the Feds To Run Local Public Schools? Make ‘Em Get A Permission Slip from Parents
As the dean of a prominent graduate school of education noted in an article published several years ago: "Schools are not…
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Dumbing Down What Students Read Didn’t Make Them Any Smarter
Yesterday as today, what we call reading skills heavily influence academic achievement. They further influence the development of writing skills beyond the…
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Is There Anything Common Core Gets Right?
Most books on public education in any country do not favor workforce preparation for all students in place of optional high school…
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Why Can’t We Raise Academic Requirements for K-12 Teachers?
There is one good reason that the most recent review of research on teacher professional development in mathematics in the USA almost…
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Why Spend Billions on Professional Development for Teachers?
Despite the billions that have been spent on professional development for K-12 teachers in the United States, we actually know extremely…
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The Federal Government’s War on Local School Boards
Federalism refers to a balance of power between a central government and the various states or provinces in a country, each component…
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How Do You Sell Common Core Standards and Tests To Unwilling Parents? Hide Them
An interesting game is being played by U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee), the major sponsor of the Every Student Succeeds…
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Why Charter Schools Aren’t a Magic Trick for Poor Kids
Shrewd philanthropists and investors have helped to portray "school choice" in the form of publicly-funded charter schools as the…
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How Dumb Do We Want Prospective Teachers To Be?
Not much smarter than the dumbest students they will teach, it seems. But the answer really depends on the "research"…
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Lies They Told You About Common Core
Amazingly, the Common Core project was sold to state boards and school administrators as "state-led." (See, for example, here.…
