Stump speech challenge: A New Deal on testing
All the pro-testing talking points you’ll ever need. Robert Pondiscio
All the pro-testing talking points you’ll ever need. Robert Pondiscio
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form in the Daily News.
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form in The Tennessean.
Editor’s note: This is the seventh in a series of personal reflections on the current state of education reform and contemporary conservatism by Andy Smarick, a Bernard Lee Schwartz senior policy fellow with the Thomas B.
The new-teacher attrition rate is not 50 percent. Megan Lail
Ivory tower, meet grounded boots. Kevin Mahnken
Debunking the “selection bias” myth. Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
Arizona makes passing the U.S. citizenship test a graduation requirement. Other states should too. Robert Pondiscio
A former secretary of education on the gap between policy and practice. Rod Paige
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.
At Inside Schools, a website for parents covering New York City schools, reporter
Editor's note: This post appears in response to Michael J. Petrilli and Frederick M. Hess's earlier article.
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form in the Daily News and City Journal.
Proof that such programs do keep kids out of harm’s way. Dara Zeehandelaar, Ph.D.
Licensing tests to insure teachers know how to teach reading? What a concept! Robert Pondiscio
Education Week’s annual report confuses preschool quality with preschool quantity. Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form at RegBlog.
The debate over annual testing is important, but it’s no Brown v. Board of Education. Frederick M. Hess and Michael J. Petrilli
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.
Last week, I explained the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (a.k.a. No Child Left Behind) in a single table:
Free community college diverts resources away from more pressing problems. Chester E. Finn, Jr.