Articles by Spencer Irvine

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Education Summit Blasts Republicans

At a National Journal and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-sponsored event in a D.C. Grand Hyatt Hotel conference room, New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez used the event to slam the Republicans.

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Common Core Defenders

Their tales of success may leave parents grateful that they don’t have children who are students in those districts.

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Common Core in Denial

Student Achievement Partners co-founder Jason Zimba sat down the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Executive Vice President Michael Petrilli recently to promote Common Core, the Obama Administration’s higher education initiative.

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Fidel, we hardly knew ye’

Humberto Fontova’s book, The Longest Romance: The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro, goes a long way towards filling in the gaps in media coverage of that island dictatorship.

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Academic Blame Bush Syndrome

The 212-page book could have included scandals from at least the first term of President Barack Obama, but they were conspicuously missing.

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Bane of Do-Gooders

The Responsibility To Protect, or R2P policies of the UN and, for that matter, the Obama Administration, are rather vague, economist Christopher Coyne argues in his book Doing Bad By Doing Good.

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Chartering Special Education

The state of New York discovered that special needs students are not enrolling in charter schools as much as they are in public schools, and immediately thought that the charter schools were to blame.

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Common Core Rollbacks?

Common Core, the Obama Administration’s education reform program, has been exposed as untested, subpar and even outdated by international standards, despite the federal government’s sales pitch to states.