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When Lessons From Education 'Reform' Go Unlearned

One good thing you can say about 2011 is that it is a year in which lots of wrong-headed undertakings finally came to their ignominious conclusions -- including, among others, the Iraq War, the Gadhafi regime, the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, and "The Oprah Winfrey Show".

Also among the train-wrecks is undoubtedly our failed national education policy, No Child Left Behind. more »

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NCLB Dies, Zombie Education Reforms Live On

With the collapse of the No Child Left Behind policy that has driven American education policy for at least the past decade, one would think that our nation's leaders would pause to consider the faulty thinking that brought this erroneous policy to life t more »

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'Nation's Report Card' Distracts From Real Concerns For Public Schools

Imagine you’re a parent of a seven-year-old who has just come home from school with her end-of-year report card. And the report card provides marks for only two subjects, and for children who are in grade-levels different from hers. Furthermore, there's nothing on the report card to indicate how well these children have been progressing throughout the year. more »

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Don't Just Get Rid Of NCLB, Get Rid Of The Thinking That Created It

Now that the mandate to run our nation's schools according to No Child Left Behind has utterly collapsed, and many of more »

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Cuts For School Kids, But More Tax Dollars For Tests?

While America's political leaders happily take a meat axe to our nation's public school system, the national media continues to turn our gaze toward more »

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As Public Schools Teeter on the Brink, Our Leaders Look the Other Way

Imagine taking your child to her first day of kindergarten and finding out that there won’t be a teacher for the class of 30 children until October. more »

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