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Here’s Why Victory Looks Like This
(Guest post by Greg Forster) Jay points to the way Democrats and progressives are now saying all the same things we’ve been saying for a decade, but acting like they thought of them, and remarks that...
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Florida’s Grammar Controversy
(Guest Post by Lindsey Burke) In the most recent administration of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) – the state’s criterion-referenced assessment of student achievement – Florida...
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Bipartisan Group of NC Legislators Override Veto, Enact K-12 Reform
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) The North Carolina legislature voted to override the budget veto of Governor Purdue, enacting significant K-12 reform in the process. Reforms included in the budget...
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New Column on Florida’s Anti-Testing Nihlists
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) I authored a column in response to anti-testing extremists in Florida. Here is a sample: A recent problem with the FCAT writing test drew a great deal of attention from...
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Florida Education Association Bemoans their Self-Imposed Exile
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Andy Ford, President of the Florida Education Association wrote a piece for the Orlando Sentinel complaining about Florida’s accountability system. Ford’s piece connects...
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School Choice Equals Higher Accountability
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Patricia Levesque, veteran of the school reform wars in Florida, cautions edu-reactionaries in Louisiana against making the same mistakes that their compatriots in...
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What happens when we can’t give people choice?
(Guest Post by Mike McShane) Over the weekend, Washington Post education writer Jay Matthews posed a great question on his Class Struggle blog. He asks, in not so many words: why do education...
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El Paso Cheating Scandal
(Guest post by Greg Forster) One guy who isn’t going to be nominated for this year’s Al Copeland award is Lorenzo Garcia, disgraced ex-superintendent of El Paso schools. He’s at the center of the...
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Global Report Card 2.0
With help from my colleagues, Josh McGee and Jonathan Mills, we’ve produced for the George W. Bush Institute an updated version of the Global Report Card. The Atlantic is hosting the Global Report...
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A Modest Proposal on State Standards
You can check in any time you like, and you can always leave. (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) A few years ago while serving as a VP at the Goldwater Institute I received a request to come out hard...
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Extremism in Defense of Mediocrity is Quite a Vice
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) So Michelle Malkin recently wrote columns of an alarmed tone warning of the dangers of the Common Core. Here is a taste: Under President Obama, these top-down mal-formers...
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A Once Proud People Begin a Fight Against Hopelessness
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) The Arizona Republic ran a fantastic story on their front page of this Sunday’s edition on Navajo schools in Arizona and the efforts underway to turn them around. The...
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TUDA and School Grading
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) I had the opportunity to discuss A-F school grading with a thoughtful skeptic yesterday. Sadly my doubting Thomas remained a skeptic at the end of our discussion. I...
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Correct Answers Are So Passé
(Guest Post by James Shuls) In a recent interview, Douglas McCollum, senior vice president and general manager of education publishing company Pearson was asked, “What’s wrong with the way that we do...
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Choice First, Standards Second
(Guest post by Greg Forster) The Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times are now reporting that Tony Bennett is expected to resign. As I’ve said all along, this is not about Tony Bennett. This is about...
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New York Releases Common Core Scores
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) So purely in the interests of keeping your fighting skills sharp just in case some Common Core supporting crazy old man in a brown robe intrudes on the anti-Common Core...
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Tony Bennett Cleared in A-F grading controversy
(Guest Post from Matthew Ladner) We now have a bipartisan analysis of what actually happened in Indiana grading-gate scandal. Rick Hess covers the subject here: Flash-forward five weeks, and we finally...
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AP Reporter Tom LoBianco Smeared Tony Bennett
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Just in case there is any lingering doubt out there about just what happened in the faux Indiana grading “scandal” the Sunshine State News very helpfully dispels it: It...
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Many States Show Shameful Records in Holding Schools Accountable for the...
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) The No Child Left Behind Act required student testing and reporting of data in return for continuing receipt of federal education dollars. The law however left granular...
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What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Rawls and Understanding Update on RedefinED
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) I updated the “forced reincarnation with the chance to pick your state” thought experiment with NAEP 2013 data over at RedefinED. Bonus Elvis C:
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