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Promises Unfulfilled? What Next, Federal Education Failure?

Neal McCluskey — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:31:47 +0000

By Neal McCluskey

On Sunday we marked the tenth birthday of the No Child Left Behind Act by reviewing its decade of futility and explaining why federal education adventuring is basically doomed to failure. (Enjoy some of our extensive coverage here, here, and here.) This week we got yet more evidence that federal policy is always big on promises, itty-bitty [...]

Promises Unfulfilled? What Next, Federal Education Failure? is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog

Four More Things Washington Shouldn’t Do

Neal McCluskey — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:12:46 +0000

By Neal McCluskey

Today AEI’s Rick Hess and Stanford’s Linda Darling-Hammond—two folks who don’t always see eye to eye—have a New York Times op-ed that decries federal micromanagement in education, then lays out four things they think Washington should do. If only they’d stopped at lamenting micromanagement. Let’s take their four should-do’s in order: First is encouraging transparency for school performance [...]

Four More Things Washington Shouldn’t Do is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog

Little Evidence for Either

Neal McCluskey — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:16:35 +0000

By Neal McCluskey

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) or Common Core? NCLB and Common Core? If you look at the evidence, the answer to both questions is “no.” There’s precious little evidence that NCLB has worked, and just as little that national standards will do any better. Despite all the fine sounding talk about the federal government demanding “accountability” [...]

Little Evidence for Either is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog