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How appropriate for left-wing San Francisco that the only guilty verdict for the five-times-deported Mexican illegal alien who shot and killed a 32-year-old American woman on a pier is on a gun charge. Is that what horrified the jury: That someone might have a gun?
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New Boston Post columnist Adam MacLeod appeared on Fox and Friends this morning to discuss his article "Undoing the Dis-Education of Millennials." MacLeod's column has gone viral since it was published on New Boston Post earlier this month, in part because he revealed that he makes
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Are "achievement gaps" caused by K-12 schools and the teachers in them? Many policymakers, including those at the U.S. Department of Education, seem to think so, because Race to the Top federal grant applications in 2010 wanted states to hold teachers accountable for student test scores. Indeed,
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What do you call the seller if you label new English Language Arts test items as more rigorous than those on the original tests with the same name and then sell another state these new English Language Arts test items knowing that parents there expect the original test items, not
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Homeschooling has been legally recognized in all 50 states as a viable education choice for families since 1993, but the battle to protect homeschooling rights is far from over. All too frequently, state legislators, local policymakers, and school district officials create new roadblocks for homeschooling parents, challenging their right to
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As Dan Goldhaber noted in his article in the Spring 2016 issue of Education Next: "Of the characteristics [of teacher quality] that were measured in the still-revered 1966 Coleman report titled Equality of Educational Opportunity, those that bear the highest relationship to pupil achievement are first, the teacher'
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So far as we know, low achievement hasn't been remedied by any of the strategies or programs that educators or policy makers have tried out since 1965 — the date of the first authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. We've already made a mess of
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As the dean of a prominent graduate school of education noted in an article published several years ago: "Schools are not the major cause of the achievement gap." He also noted how ineffective most education reforms have been and how little improvement we have seen. It is understandable
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