It’s so easy to hate your local school board. Trust me on this: I’ve been a school board member for almost twelve years and I
After you complete high school, you’re often expected to go on to higher education. But here in the city, the state’s top education official says
Maryann Woods-Murphy, New Jersey’s 2010 Teacher of the Year, explains how the National Network of State Teachers of the Year arrived at the consensus that
On Saturday Fred LeBrun of the Times-Union, Albany’s daily paper wrote an obituary for Andrew Cuomo’s career. According to LeBrun, the Governor’s premature passing stems
Poor Andrew Cuomo: he just can’t get it right. First he signed the Education Transformation Act of 2015 that, in part, ties teacher evaluations to
On Thursday morning President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act, which greatly reduces the federal role in public education and hands much of the
Jim Schutze has a provocative column in the Dallas Observer (hat tip: Chris Stewart) called “Teacher Unions and Koch Bros. Join Forces to Sell Out
On Sunday the New York Times featured an article on the demise of the Common Core and PARCC assessments in Massachusetts. According to the Times,
Today’s Washington Examiner article, entitled “Tide Shifting Against Common Core,” is a great illustration of the failure of journalists to differentiate between the Common Core
Today’s New York Times features a doomsday article on the demise of the PARCC assessments aligned with the Common Core State Standards in Massachusetts. In