Betsy DeVos has fully embraced the power ESSA gave her to approve state accountability plans and has no trouble with exerting federal control.
Silicon Valley’s Influence on Public Education
Silicon Valley tech companies want taxpayers to pay for public schools to teach coding to prepare more American students to go to work for them.
Trump’s Secretary of Education Short List
Who will President-Elect Donald Trump appoint as his Secretary for Education? Shane Vander Hart looks at the speculated short list.
The New Jersey Board of Education Doubles Down on Stupid
The New Jersey Board of Education just voted to require high school students to pass the PARCC Algebra I exam and 10th Grade English exam to graduate.
Medical Doctor Explains Why Handwriting Is Still Essential
Perri Klaus, MD objects to discarding handwriting, and in an op/ed in The New York Times explains why it is still essential even in a “keyboard age.”
Teaching Experience? Who Needs Teaching Experience?
Pearson does not require teaching experience for their scorers for the PARCC assessments. What could possibly go wrong?
Teaching Literature as Teaching Particular Concepts and Skills
If all you do is teach a particular set of concepts and skills within a novel you are not teaching literature.
No Child Left Behind Waivers: The Ends Do Not Justify the Means
On Friday Motoko Rich wrote in The New York Times about how the “No Child” Law has been whittled down by the White House. In just five months, the Obama administration has freed schools in more than half the nation from central provisions of the No Child Left Behind education law, raising the question of […]