Posted by Andrew J. Coulson on July 29, 2010
By Andrew J. Coulson
President Obama today touted his Race to the Top program, which pressures states to, among other things, adopt national education standards. Also today, the New York Board of Regents revealed that it had been misleading its citizens for years, giving them an inflated notion of how well their children were performing academically. Last year 77 percent of students [...]
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Posted by Adam Schaeffer on July 29, 2010
By Adam Schaeffer
Charter schools are the hot new thing.
OK, they aren’t all that new. But many people who used to have blanket objections to any increase in school choice now support (some form of) charter schools. President Obama, and even AFT President Randi Weingarten, say they support “charter” schools. The guy who made Al Gore’s documentary, Sinners [...]
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Posted by Neal McCluskey on July 28, 2010
By Neal McCluskey
Yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the nineteen finalist states in the federal “Race to the Top.” In his announcement speech, Duncan was unrestrained in the glory he heaped on the $4.35-billion program (and a few others), declaring that ”as we look at the last 18 months, it is absolutely stunning to see how much change has happened [...]
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Posted by Andrew J. Coulson on July 27, 2010
By Andrew J. Coulson
Touting the latest states to make the finals for Race-to-the-Top funding at the National Press Club today, education secretary Arne Duncan declared that:
We are a very long way from the classroom in Washington and if we have learned one thing from NCLB, it’s that one-size-fits-all remedies generally don’t work.
While secretary Duncan claims to recognize the futility [...]
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Posted by Neal McCluskey on July 26, 2010
By Neal McCluskey
There are lots of reasons to be very concerned about the national standards and tests barreling in silence toward education domination. Below, I offer several of those reasons — and one possible standards alternative – along with links to material expanding on the big concerns. Give ‘em a read, and as you do play a little game: See if you can guess [...]
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Posted by Neal McCluskey on July 26, 2010
By Neal McCluskey
There are lots of reasons to be very concerned about the national standards and tests barreling in silence toward education domination. Below, I offer several of those reasons — and one possible standards alternative – along with links to material expanding on the big concerns. Give ‘em a read, and as you do play a little game: See if you can guess [...]
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Posted by Andrew J. Coulson on July 26, 2010
By Andrew J. Coulson
Washington state legislators will reportedly have to cut billions from the budget when they reconvene next session, and governor Christine Gregoire has commissioned a privatization study to see if taking the big step makes economic sense. Washington’s public schools spend about $13 billion annually (around $13,000/pupil — see Table 8 here), so increasing the system’s efficiency has [...]
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Posted by Andrew J. Coulson on July 26, 2010
By Andrew J. Coulson
Washington state legislators will reportedly have to cut billions from the budget when they reconvene next session, and governor Christine Gregoire has commissioned a privatization study to see if taking the big step makes economic sense. Washington’s public schools spend about $13 billion annually (around $13,000/pupil — see Table 8 here), so increasing the system’s efficiency has [...]
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