First Bell 7-3-13
A first look at today's education news: Oklahoma will back out of the PARCC testing consortium, California will change the way it funds it schools, and more
A first look at today's education news: Oklahoma will back out of the PARCC testing consortium, California will change the way it funds it schools, and more
Andy Smarick interviews...Frederick Douglass and Ronald Reagan?
A first look at today's education news: Philly's cash-strapped public school district might be saved, the federal student-loan rate doubles, and more
A first look at today's education news: The OECD says that those without "baseline qualifications" fared worst during financial crises, Glenda Ritz backs away from Indiana's teacher-evaluation system, and mroe
A first look at today's education news: Student loans are set to jump from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1, the Agriculture Department has enacted a snacks ban in schools, and more
Many have been pestering the Department for SIG student achievement data
Four years after the first report’s release, CREDO is out with an update
Still hunting the High School Reform That Works
A first look at today's education news: Arne Duncan defends the Common Core standards, the New York Times highlights the rising cost of college, and more
Andy Smarick interviews Marc Porter Magee, founder and president of 50CAN
A first look at today's education news: CREDO has released an updated assessment of the quality of the nation's charter schools, the Supreme Court sends affirmative action back to appeals, and more
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
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
The battle hymn of the Whole Foods Republican
The report heard ‘round the ed-reform world
Yesterday, Mike Petrilli argued the conservative case for the Common Core on the Rod Arquette Show
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
Andy Smarick interviews Kaya Henderson, Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools
A new NCTQ report delivers a scathing rebuke of most teacher-education programs
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
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
The second half of Andy's compilation of must-read recent publications
Chester E. Finn, Jr. breaks down why Fordham does not support implementation of the NGSS.
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
In classic Team Obama style, Duncan explains resistance to the president's pre-K plan as Congressional dysfunction
Keeping it real with reform realism
States can do better than the NGSS
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
Andy Smarick interviews Mashea Ashton, CEO of the Newark Charter School Fund