Jane Robbins: Parents reassert your right to protect your children from dangerous experimentation. Schools must treat students as students, not patients.
Belittling Parents and Ignoring Evidence Won’t Work
The Collaborative for Student Success belittling parents and ignoring well-founded research that supports their arguments is a poor method of persuasion.
Parents, Here’s a Resource to Help You Protect Your Student’s Privacy
Jane Robbins: All parents should download the Parent Toolkit just released by the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy to learn how to protect their children.
Bill Bennett Doesn’t Know What He Is Talking About
Jane Robbins: Some of the points that former education secretary Bill Bennett made in his op/ed defending the Every Student Succeeds Act are confused.
A Debate over the Meaning and Perfection of Education in America
Jane Robbins: Joy Pullmann in her new book sees a renewed determination by parents to do whatever it takes to ensure a real education for their children.
Using NAEP Proficiency for Accountability Sets Florida Students Up for Failure
Jane Robbins: The Foundation for Florida’s Future wants school accountability ratings that are linked to whether students are deemed “proficient” on the NAEP.
Skipping Down the Bipartisan Path Toward Big Data
Jane Robbins: Congressional Republicans are skipping down the bipartisan path yet again on the issue of Big Data and lifetime citizen surveillance.
Five Reasons to Oppose NCES Participation in the Int’l Early Learning Study
Jane Robbins: We oppose a proposal by the National Center for Education Statistics to join OECD in conducting the International Early Learning Study (IELS).
Is President Trump Being Played by Betsy DeVos and Jeb Bush?
Jane Robbins & Erin Tuttle: Does President Trump realize the threats to his education legacy that are being planted by his personnel choices and by congressional “frenemies”?
With DeVos News Blackout, Conservative Media Mimic Liberal Media
Jane Robbins: Regardless of what conservative media outlets tell you opposition to Betsy DeVos’ nomination as Secretary of Education is not just from teachers’ unions.