The end of MCAS is the end of an era. Now let’s figure out what comes next.
With the number of states requiring students to pass exams in order to earn a diploma now down to the single digits, this feels like the end of an era. What should we do now? Let’s start by getting the gang back together—a bipartisan group of governors and state education chiefs—to work on a rational set of high school graduation requirements reflecting the multiple pathways to upward mobility and post-secondary success.
Michael J. Petrilli 12.5.2024
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. . . .And keeping the unions honest
9.24.2003
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No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning
9.24.2003
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U.S. history standards flunk
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 9.24.2003
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Flexing some union muscle. . .
9.24.2003
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Education for Democracy
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 9.24.2003
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Segregation in Neighborhoods and Schools: Impacts on Minority Children in the Boston Region
Eric Osberg 9.24.2003
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Bad news for LA
9.24.2003
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Broad bucks to Long Beach
9.24.2003
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Charter schools-what they're cracked up to be
9.17.2003
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Old Education Ideas, New American Schools: Progressivism and the Rhetoric of Educational Revolution
Eric Osberg 9.17.2003
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Class size reduction-not what it's cracked up to be
9.17.2003
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In Need of Improvement: Ten Ways the U.S. Department of Education Has Failed to Live Up to Its Teacher Quality Commitments
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 9.17.2003
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