ESEA

Why We Need a New Education Law with Federal Oversight

From The Hill:Billions of federal dollars are spent on education each year, and no taxpayer wants to see this investment…

9 years ago

NEA Approves New Anti-Accountability Items at the Expense of Disadvantaged Kids

The U.S. Congress is seemingly close to reauthorizing ESEA, now called the “Every Child Achieves Act.” But the current proposal…

9 years ago

“Small But Mighty Group of Teachers” Urge Senate to Include Accountability AND Action in ESEA

Alice Johnson Cain, Vice President for Federal and State Policy at Teach Plus, makes a convincing case for why the…

9 years ago

Note to U.S. Congress on ESEA Rewrite: Take a Tip From the Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

After I read the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage on Friday, I couldn’t stop thinking about the pending reauthorization…

9 years ago

QOD: Why We Need an ESEA that Includes Federal Intervention Requirements

John M. Bridgeland, a Cincinnati native and former White House staffer, explains why a newly-authorized ESEA must include a federal…

9 years ago

Camden’s “Remarkable Scholars” Feted by District/Why We Need a New ESEA With Teeth

As discussions heat up in the U.S. Senate over a reauthorized ESEA (and urgency surges as the clock ticks away),…

9 years ago

New Newsworks Column: NJEA and the Heritage Foundation: Perfect Together

It starts here:Almost everyone is finding something to like in the new U.S. Senate bill that would replace No Child…

10 years ago

Parents Across America and Fairtest Fight ESEA/NCLB Commitment to Annual Standardized Tests

Today is Parents Across America and Fairtest’s “National Day of Action,” which is devoted to lobbying U.S. senators to eliminate…

10 years ago

Standardized Testing Opponents are on the Wrong Side of Civil Rights

Here's my new Newsworks column:On Monday U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan outlined his wish-list for the next iteration of…

10 years ago

Common Core Testing in NJ et.al.: What’s the Prognosis?

Whiteboard Advisors has a monthly “Education Insider” series that solicits opinions from leaders in the field. Its new one looks…

11 years ago