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Despite Reports to the Contrary, New Teachers Are Staying in Their Jobs Longer
The new-teacher attrition rate is not 50 percent. Megan Lail
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Turning lightning into electricity: Organizing parents for education reform
Ivory tower, meet grounded boots. Kevin Mahnken
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Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston
Debunking the “selection bias” myth. Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
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Standards
Model Citizens
Arizona makes passing the U.S. citizenship test a graduation requirement. Other states should too. Robert Pondiscio
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Why has education policy produced such little improvement?
A former secretary of education on the gap between policy and practice. Rod Paige
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Accountability & Testing
Stump speech contest: What members of Congress should say about testing
The word around town is that support for annual testing among rank-and-file members of Congress—in both chambers and on both sides of the aisle—is dangerously low. They are constantly hearing complaints from their constituents about the overuse and abuse of standardized tests, and many are eager to do something about it.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Don’t confuse jargon with rigor
At Inside Schools, a website for parents covering New York City schools, reporter
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State of dismay
Editor's note: This post appears in response to Michael J. Petrilli and Frederick M. Hess's earlier article.
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Standards, Curriculum & Instruction
Carmen Fariña's war on evidence
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form in the Daily News and City Journal.
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The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries
Proof that such programs do keep kids out of harm’s way. Dara Zeehandelaar, Ph.D.
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Trends in Teacher Certification: Equipping teachers to prepare proficient readers
Licensing tests to insure teachers know how to teach reading? What a concept! Robert Pondiscio
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Quality Counts 2015
Education Week’s annual report confuses preschool quality with preschool quantity. Chester E. Finn, Jr.
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Stay the course or turn the page?
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form at RegBlog.
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Playing the race card won't save No Child Left Behind
The debate over annual testing is important, but it’s no Brown v. Board of Education. Frederick M. Hess and Michael J. Petrilli
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When government fails us
Monday afternoon, a Washington, D.C., metro rail train stopped in a tunnel not far from a major station, and the car began filling with smoke. Soon the lights went off and, though many passengers were struggling to breathe, they were told by metro employees to stay put.
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ESSA
ESEA update: More red than green in Lamar Alexander's reauthorization bill
Last week, I explained the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (a.k.a. No Child Left Behind) in a single table:
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Barack Obama's love affair with universality
Free community college diverts resources away from more pressing problems. Chester E. Finn, Jr.
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Three thoughts about Secretary Duncan's ESEA speech
Overachieving Andy already beat me to the punch with ten thoughts about the secretary’s speech today.
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Accountability & Testing
Ten things to know about Secretary Duncan's ESEA reauthorization speech
As I wrote last week, with the ESEA reauthorization process heating up, lots of advocates are now trying to influence the congressional deliberations. Secretary Duncan weighed in this morning.
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Charter Schools
Vision Talks a better fit for conservatives than ed reformers
In AEI’s latest Vision Talks video, Arthur Brooks, its president and the happiest man in the think-tank world, argues that public-policy advocates need to make a better cas
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Standards
When the standard algorithm is the only algorithm taught
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form on the Tools for the Common Core Standards blog.
