Next Generation Science Standards Revisited
Can you spell “C” as in “chemistry”?
Can you spell “C” as in “chemistry”?
Triangulating a trifecta of survey results
Today we kept both promises by issuing a pair of additional analyses related to NGSS.
One of three technical reports on retirement costs and school-district budgets.
Let's not overlook the reality that worthy effort requires sound policy, not just praise for those who do a great job despite its absence
Andy Smarick interviews Kathleen Porter-Magee, senior director of the High Quality Standards program and Bernard Lee Schwartz policy fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute
The report heard ‘round the ed-reform world
Yesterday, Mike Petrilli argued the conservative case for the Common Core on the Rod Arquette Show
States can do better than the NGSS
Recent events have divided conservative school reformers, but it’s not too late to stitch it back together
Peter Cunningham responds to an anti-Common Core article in the New York Times
Mike asks Deborah the question: Does it "work"?
One of three technical reports on retirement costs and school-district budgets.
When it comes to pension reform in the education realm, it’s hard to stay positive. Here, we’re saddled with a bona fide fiscal calamity (up to a trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities by some counts), and no consensus about how to rectify the situation. No matter how one slices and dices this problem, somebody ends up paying in ways they won’t like and perhaps shouldn’t have to bear. All we can say is that some options are less bad than others.
Mike debunks another set of lies, half-truths, and misinformation from the Pioneer Institute
There are plenty of reasons to be against the Common Core, but the Pinoeer Institute's Jamie Gass and Charles Chieppo miss the mark completely
A question for folks on both sides of the education-reform debate
On Monday, we kick off By the Company It Keeps
Mike Petrilli debates Deborah Meier on Bridging Differences
On the thirtieth anniversary of "A Nation at Risk," Dr. Bennett spoke at the Fordham Institute on the state of American Education
Republicans make a colossal—but reversible—error on the Common Core
The College Board and ACT have entered the ring
As the challenges of education governance loom ever larger and the dysfunction and incapacity of the traditional K-12 system reveal themselves as major roadblocks to urgently-needed reforms across that system, many have asked, “What’s the alternative?”
Alabama’s decision to drop out of both consortia and choose a battery of ACT exams is enormous
Lone Star State moves to lower its own standards
Will the new science standards make the grade?
Andy's picks, from Kansas City to CALDER
When charter schools first emerged more than two decades ago, they presented an innovation in public school governance. No longer would school districts enjoy the “exclusive franchise” to own and operate public schools, as chartering pioneer and advocate Ted Kolderie explained. Charters wouldn’t gain all of the independence of private schools—they would still report to a publicly accountable body, or authorizer—but they would be largely freed from the micromanagement of school boards, district bureaucracies, and union contracts. Autonomy, in exchange for accountability, would reign supreme.
Andy Smarick's pick of the news
In this edition of the Ed Next Book Club, Mike Petrilli sits down with Tony Wagner to discuss his new book