NCLB

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

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

QOD: Arne Duncan on what the education reformers got wrong

David Leonhardt of the New York Times interviews U.S. Ed. Sec. Arne Duncan, former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, and former…

11 years ago

Feds Grant 8 California Districts an NCLB Waiver

Michele McNeil at Edweek has the goods on U.S. Ed. Sec. Arne Duncan’s surprising decision to give eight California school…

11 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

NJSBA Goes to Washington

Dr. Larry Feinsod, Executive Director of New Jersey School Boards Association, reports that he just returned from Washington, D.C. to…

12 years ago

GOP Blunders: Disability Rights and Education Reform

Dana Goldstein has a great piece up about the Congressional Republican caucus’s inexplicably stupid blocking of the U.S.’s adoption of…

12 years ago