Not that that’s a good thing. At the Cato Institute, several conservatives squared off to discuss education reform. David Cleary, Majority Staff Director for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee attached to the…
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91% of Harvard University Professors’ Campaign Donations go to Hillary Clinton
That’s…a majority. Don’t need Common Core math to figure that out.
MLA Archives
The Modern Language Association (known as MLA) gathers annually in a liberal city of their choice early in the month of January. These professors, graduate students and PhD candidates specialize in language, literature and many…
Division at Home Can Subtract from Math at School
Money can buy a lot of things, but a good education may not be one of them. Yesterday, the National Assessment of Educational Progress released its two-year report, and it’s not exactly a glowing one….
Education Wonk Changes His Mind on Arne Duncan
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Michael Petrilli recently wrote an apologetic op-ed for Fordham’s e-mail newsletter entitled “The new ESEA will be ‘loose-loose’ because Arne Duncan went overboard with ‘tight-tight’.” A champion for Common Core,…
Teaching Moment on Baltimore Missed
Here’s what so-called “teachable moments” in academia generally miss—the decade those moments are in. “There is a revolution taking place in the United States,” Stanford researchers Travis Bristol and Claude Goldenberg write of their Edutopia…
Scott Walker Leads GOP on Education
Whatever his merits or demerits, the actual front-runner for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination continues to show how Republican candidates, at least on education, can lead on, rather than be overwhelmed by, issues. “Wisconsin Gov….
Condoleezza Rice takes over Jeb Bush’s Educational Foundation
The former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is taking over Jeb Bush’s education outfit now that Jeb is running in the 2016 race for president. What isn’t said is that Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in…
School Choice a Major Issue in GOP, puts Mitt Romney ahead of Jeb Bush
Homeschooling or other options vs. Common Core means the former will win in the GOP. No surprise there.
“We Don’t Need No Thought Control” in Schools
A panel discussion at Center for American Progress called for brain research in the classroom and shared their remarks on mandating scientific research in the classroom. Giving a final exam-type test on the first day…