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Commentary
6.24.2013

First Bell 6-24-13

Pamela Tatz

A first look at today's education news: An MIT student finds that Boston's charter schools deliver, a computer glitch means late diplomas for over a thousand NYC students, and more

Commentary
6.21.2013

First Bell 6-21-13

Pamela Tatz

A first look at today's education news: Catholic schools fight to survive, South Carolina on the verge of a tax-credit-scholarship program for special-ed students, and more

Commentary
6.19.2013

First Bell 6-19-13

Pamela Tatz

A first look at today's education news: Arne Duncan will allow waiver states to postpone attaching stakes to teacher-evaluation systems, the UFT will endorse a mayoral candidate for the first time in over a decade, and more

Commentary
6.17.2013

First Bell 6-17-13

Pamela Tatz

A first look at today's education news: Philadelphia's "draconian" budget leads the city to pink-slip 19 percent of its school-based work force, Newark's schools supe calls for a common application for charter and traditional public schools, and more

Commentary
6.14.2013

First Bell 6-14-13

Pamela Tatz

A first look at today's education news: An expansion of pre-K will likely mean an expansion of private pre-K providers, Montgomery County plans to make it harder to transfer to out-of-district high schools, and more

Commentary
6.13.2013

First Bell 6-13-13

Pamela Tatz

A first look at today's education news: The Senate Education Committee approves Sen. Harkin's NCLB-reauthorization bill, the share of the nation's population with college degrees reaches an all-time high, and more

Commentary
6.12.2013

First Bell 6-12-13

Pamela Tatz

A first look at today's education news: Kansas adopts the NGSS, Gov. Perry signs a bill reducing the number of state tests Texas's students must take prior to graduation from 15 to 5, and more

Report
6.11.2013
Standards

Final Evaluation of the Next Generation Science Standards

Paul Gross, Douglas Buttrey, Ursula Goodenough, Noretta Koertge, Lawrence S. Lerner, Martha Schwartz, Richard Schwartz

In the final evaluation of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the Thomas B. Fordham Institute grants the standards a C grade. The NGSS grade is superior to grades we granted to the science standards of sixteen states and the PISA framework in the State of State Science Standards 2012 but inferior to those of twelve states and the District of Columbia, as well as the NAEP and TIMSS frameworks.

Commentary
6.10.2013

First Bell 6-10-13

Pamela Tatz

A first look at the education news from this weekend and today: Ability grouping and computer-adaptive testing are on the rise, special-ed students attend class virtually, and more

Video
6.6.2013

A Crash Course in Teacher Pensions

Dara Zeehandelaar, author of The Big Squeeze: Retirement Costs and School District Budgets, explains teachers pensions and the difference between defined benefits and defined contribution plans that states offer teachers.

Commentary
6.5.2013

The big squeeze

Chester E. Finn, Jr., Michael J. Petrilli

Retirement costs and school-district budgets

Commentary
6.5.2013

First Bell 6-5-13

Pamela Tatz

A first look at today's education news: Senate Democrats unveil an NCLB-reauthorization bill; a deal on Wisconsin's income-tax cuts, school-voucher expansions, and public school funding moves forward; and more

Commentary
6.5.2013
Charter Schools

By the Company It Keeps: Robin Lake

Andy Smarick's latest interview is with Robin Lake, director of the Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE)