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Little birds are flying around everywhere these days, tweeting "school choice" as the last hope for education reform. We find it praised on the editorial pages of Education Next, in a book by DC-based self-styled education policy expert Chester Finn, and by Donald J. Trump, the next president
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The current degradation of the presidential campaign (it seems to be about who can better smear the other major candidate) and the purported alienation of many voters may have begun in 2009/2010 with the duplicitous campaign to trick the public into buying an empty set of K-12 skills described
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Who doesn't want accountability in education? That was the selling point for No Child Left Behind (NCLB). It was the selling point for the Massachusetts Education Reform Act (MERA) of 1993. It was even a selling point for Finnish reforms in teacher education in 1970. But how did
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Because most states adopted Common Core's standards, most school systems are investing in new textbooks for ELA and Math. And Education Week reporters are dutifully alerting their readers to reviews of these textbooks in ELA and math—mainly from a new organization called edreports.org. Reviews of math
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In another year, parents may notice a change in emphasis in the history and social studies curricula at their children's schools. Where once American history courses focused on our country's founding principles, their roots, and their application, soon such courses may start to emphasize political activism
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In the 19th century, cattle rustlers rebranded cattle to hide the fact that certain cows actually belonged to someone else. Today "rebranding" is a widely used marketing strategy in which a new name or logo design is created for an established product in order to create a better
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The efforts by the Gates Foundation to manipulate our major institutions lie at a very deep level in order to remain difficult to detect. Its efforts have been made much easier because our media don't seem to care if the manipulation is done by a "generous philanthropist,
Maura Healey
Last week, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts stopped voters from weighing in on a citizen-backed initiative to repeal Common Core. In her opinion, Chief Justice Margot Botsford blocked on a technicality the petition to let voters decide whether to keep Common Core or revert to the state's