The American Federation of Teachers finished up its annual convention yesterday. Highlights were a vote of confidence in the Common…
From today's New York Times:Perhaps no issue, though, better illustrates how much Washington-style polarization has seeped into statehouses as education…
I rarely post guest columns, but here's a good one that flew threw the transom. It's by Dana Egreczky, a…
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is trying mightily to pull his state from both the Common Core State Standards and one…
Yesterday NJ Spotlight published my column about the politics behind Senate bill 2154, which would establish an "Education Task Force"…
Robert Rothman at the Alliance for Excellent Education responds to conspiracy theorists who maintain that the Common Core State Standards…
You know things have gotten weird when Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers Union, and George Will, stalwart conservative…
Today’s New York Times features an article that describes how students are exposed to less of the writing of James…
Michelle Morrissey in "By 'Common' We Mean Equity" at TNTP:When the Common Core State Standards emerged, it was both a…
Chris Cerf’s parting shot, addressed to NJ school leaders, addresses NJEA’s increasingly assertive campaign against new standardized testing, teaching evaluations,…