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From Thomas B. Fordham Institute: The new ESEA, in a single table

By Michael J. Petrilli As first reported by Alyson Klein at Education Week’s Politics K–12 blog, Capitol Hill staff reached…

10 years ago

From Forbes: How To Fix Education In America

By Robert Reiss Pretty much everyone in America agrees on the importance of our education system. And yet, consider these…

10 years ago

Clinton says ‘no evidence’ that teachers can be judged by student test scores

By Lyndsey Layton Hillary Rodham Clinton said she is opposed to using student test scores as a way to judge…

10 years ago

Huff Post Education: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg About Education, a Former Classmate

By Emily Talmage Dear Mark, You probably don’t remember me, but we were students together at Phillips Exeter Academy 15…

10 years ago

The Atlantic: How Parental Incarceration Affects a Child’s Education

By Alia Wong This past summer, The Atlantic’s Sarah Yager wrote about the rising popularity of prison nurseries as a…

10 years ago

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Missteps, not student revolt, led to Mizzou chancellor’s demise

By Koran Addo Even as it became clear Monday morning that Timothy M. Wolfe would not stay on as president…

10 years ago

Post: Feds spent $7 billion to fix failing schools, with mixed results

By Lyndsey Layton and Emma Brown A national program that pumped a record $7 billion into failing schools — and…

10 years ago

From U.S. News & World Report: Taking the Teaching Profession to Task

By Lauren Camera The way teachers are recruited, trained, retained and compensated is about to get a major makeover, if…

10 years ago

Post: A serious rant about education jargon and how it hurts efforts to improve schools

If you have ever had children in school, or read a story about education policy, or participated in a school…

10 years ago

The Telegraph: Michael Rosen: Questioning ‘squeezed out’ of education

Former Children’s Laureate says humans are “questioning creatures” but this inquisitiveness is being stifled by the education system. By Josie…

10 years ago