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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 office of Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), defended the recently-passed “Every Student Succeeds Act,” or ESSA. The Heritage Foundation’s education policy […]

That’s…a majority. Don’t need Common Core math to figure that out.

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 obscure academic subjects and are indoctrinating America’s future leaders. What do they discuss? Topics such as: Black Lives Matter and anti-police […]

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. The bottom line is that education spending may be higher — but students’ tests scores aren’t. Despite burning through more […]

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, a top-down, federal government mandated education curriculum, Petrilli reversed course on his opinions of Arne Duncan’s Department of Education and […]

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 course “Teachable Moments and Academic Rigor.”* “What started in Ferguson, Missouri has marched on to other cities and, as Pedro […]

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. Scott Walker (R), a front runner in the contest for the Republican nomination for president, made bold reforms of elementary, […]

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 Education is a big advocate for Common Core, which is highly unpopular among parents and students.

Homeschooling or other options vs. Common Core means the former will win in the GOP. No surprise there.

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 of class, Benedict Carey, science reporter for The New York Times and author of How We Learn, said, “[It] prepares […]

When a California judge threw out the state’s teacher tenure laws, he sent shock waves throughout the K-12 educational establishment nationwide and gave hope to American parents from coast to coast. “On a warm day in early June, a Los Angeles County trial-court judge, Rolf M. Treu, pink-cheeked beneath a trim white beard, dropped a […]

School’s back — and so is the liberal agenda! Across the country, parents and lawmakers are up in arms about an honors curriculum that gives new meaning to the phrase “history in the making.” The 95-page outline is so agenda-driven, educators complain, that basic U.S. facts are either distorted — or worse, omitted altogether. The […]