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Why Accountability to Fed-u-crats Is Damaging Student Achievement
When the concept of accountability burst upon education policymaking in the latter half of the 20th century, it sounded like a good…
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Who Should Be In Charge of the U.S. Department of Education and Why?
Many parents have been tweeting to President Donald Trump to withdraw his support for charter school champion Betsy DeVos as Secretary of…
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Do Parents Matter? Questions Senators Should Ask Education Nominee Betsy DeVos
Who are the most powerful influences on students' academic achievement? Teachers? School administrators? D.C. Beltway policy wonks? Foundation officials? Civil…
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Why parents are concerned about Trump’s appointment for USED
Many of the parents who have been active in combating Common Core and its many tentacles in the past six years are…
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The next education frontier: Classroom choice
Little birds are flying around everywhere these days, tweeting "school choice" as the last hope for education reform. We find…
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Did duplicity about Common Core’s standards help lead to national incivility and voter alienation?
The current degradation of the presidential campaign (it seems to be about who can better smear the other major candidate) and the…
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Test-based accountability: The best we can do?
Who doesn't want accountability in education? That was the selling point for No Child Left Behind (NCLB). It was the…
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Who reviews new ELA and math textbooks?
Because most states adopted Common Core's standards, most school systems are investing in new textbooks for ELA and Math. And…
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Mass. activists want high school history to stress political activism over founding principles
In another year, parents may notice a change in emphasis in the history and social studies curricula at their children's…
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A rose by any other name …
In the 19th century, cattle rustlers rebranded cattle to hide the fact that certain cows actually belonged to someone else. Today "…
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Can parents combat the media’s tolerance of institutional manipulation?
The efforts by the Gates Foundation to manipulate our major institutions lie at a very deep level in order to remain difficult…
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Our judiciary failed our public schools – and our democracy
Last week, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts stopped voters from weighing in on a citizen-backed initiative to repeal Common Core.…
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The curriculum is changing, once again without public discussion
The writing curriculum for K-12 students is changing in Massachusetts and elsewhere, but it isn't at all clear that…
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What Bay State teachers should do about our high school reading problem
There has been a long, slow decline in the reading level of American high school graduates. Our kids are not reading much…
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Were Common Core’s ELA Standards written by charlatans? Sure seems so.
To bypass statutes forbidding the federal government to develop national standards, two private organizations—the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council…
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Reform teacher licensing now
The Bay State's Secretary of Education and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education are planning to review the…
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Are knowledge and facts no longer relevant?
Review of "Seven Myths about Education," by Daisy Christodoulou (London: The Curriculum Centre, 2013; 978-0-9575919-0-5; available…
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The Common Core journalism blackout
Earlier this month, a deliberately anonymous teacher set forth some of the problems she saw in the Common Core-based test she…
