Advice to the President and Arne Duncan

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In 2009, Pres. Obama effectively used the “bully pulpit”…

The perfect storm facing Jewish Day Schools

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More than 100,000 students in 10 states - including Rhode Island and New Hampshire - are currently educated under tax credit programs. Massachusetts has so many exceptional private and parochial education options, and our school children deserve the same options. Jewish Day Schools, for example, are facing a perfect storm of rising costs and declining philanthropic support.

Students in which states are climbing the highest?

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Reformers in other states, even ones with a sharp eye on keeping costs down, would do well to look at Massachusetts as much and, frankly, even more than Florida.

Fallout from election 2012 on education

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  You can summarize the fallout of the elections on schools…

Indiana’s airball on national education standards

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  Basketball fans will remember the scene from the epic…

Why is the state not implementing the MCAS for U.S. history?

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We are in the middle of a U.S. Senate campaign and, while…

Huck, Jim and our interest in education

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Twain famously noted that the difference between the right…

The Democrats’ Platform on K-12 Education

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Here is the Democratic National Platform on K-12 education,…

The GOP Platform on K-12 Education

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Here is the Republican platform on K-12 education, taken from…

Schools and the conventional wisdoms

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Facts are, as John Adams famously noted, “stubborn things.”…

An expert’s view of national standards’ focus on non-fiction texts

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(Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times) The Common Core national…

Sunset the Lawrence district school monopoly

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One of two kids in the Lawrence Public School system do not…

The right reform path in Lawrence?

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There are two issues that matter in K-12 education - what you…

Happy 100th Birthday to Milton Friedman!

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Happy Birthday to Milton Friedman, who would have been 100 today.…

The obvious lesson for innovation schools

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Two-and-a-half years have passed since the passage of the reform…

The SCOTUS ruling’s impact on education policy

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Internet traffic has been especially heavy for the past 32…

Making more than symbolic change in our schools

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Today’s lead story in the Globe relates the three years of…

Falling short on the Lawrence school turnaround

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In November 2011, the Board of Education decided to put the…

A big test at Madison Park Vocational

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Over the past decade, while there has been incremental success…

Perspectives on the Romney education plan

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A round-up of various perspectives on Governor Romney's education…

The wrong lesson on national standards

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Dear David, Congratulations on becoming the new head of the…

Massachusetts’ Katrina Moment

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In a previous job, I spent a lot of time in major Massachusetts…

Not grateful about “charter cap lift”

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The 2010 Achievement Gap bill that was passed by both the House…

How are the Rural Poor Doing at School?

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Massachusetts is a wealthy place. We are among the wealthiest…

Romney and Obama tussle on education

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So let the games begin. Finally, the presidential candidates…

Self-dealing among education officials

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I’m conflicted about how to say this. Getting stuff done…

Conflicts of Interest in MA’s adoption of national standards

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“No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because…

Handwaving away opposition to the national standards

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Periodically, over at the Fordham blog, Checker Finn does his…

Mandatory Volunteerism

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The last decade has seen an explosion in the number of middle…