Governor Charlie Baker on Thursday reiterated his intent to vote for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Geoff Diehl, a day after first saying he hadn't decided how he'd vote and later telling reporters he misspoke.
On the face of it, it would seem reasonable to believe that education policy makers could learn much from successful policies and programs. But they often don't.
Here are two relatively clear examples of policy makers failing to learn from effective policies/programs. In both cases, the policy makers were the members of a state board of education. One is from California, the other from Massachusetts. Both sets of policies or programs were known to state policy makers at the time that the Common Core standards in mathematics and English language arts were being developed.
