Retired educator Mary Tedrow said that while visiting schools in Finland she realized how “mean-spirited” the U.S. K-12 system is.
Are We At The End of Education Policy?
Michael Petrilli with the Fordham Institute says after a “cold war” between reformers and traditionalists we are at the end of education policy. Is he right?
No Correlation Between a Lift In State Standards and A Rise in Student Performance
Daniel Hamlin and Paul Petersen of Harvard University says no evidence suggesting a correlation between proficiency standards and student achievement exists.
Students Rebel Against Summit Education Program, Personalized Learning
High school students in Brooklyn, New York City walked out of school in protest of a personalized learning program funded in part by Mark Zuckerberg.
Ed Reformers Turn Against Testing, But For the Wrong Reason
Shane Vander Hart: Both the testing and accountability movement and personalized learning are examples of top-down, dataless reforms that won’t work.
Education Has Been Reduced to Absurdity
Lynne Taylor: Election Day did not change the fact that our education system has been reduced by absurdity by educrats at all levels of government.
Elementary Math Licensure Test: A Tale of Two States
Sandra Stotsky: All students, including minority students, need academically stronger teachers, whether in North Carolina or Massachusetts.
Common Core Does Not Help Civics Education
Common Core’s emphasis on critical thinking will not help schools provide better civics education, but will produce student activists who know nothing.
Florida Teacher Who Resigned: “Children Are Not Data Points”
Maren Hicks encouraged administrators to heed teachers’ concern about standardized testing and policies that lose sight of the children in their care.
EU Spreading the “Gospel” of Workforce Development to South Africa
A missionary from the European Union traveled to South Africa to share the gospel, but not the Gospel that you might think.
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