MBTAAnalysis: A look inside the MBTA

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The MBTA shuttles over a million passengers a day around Greater…

The Clock is Ticking…….

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The clock is ticking towards December 30, 2017.  As part of…

Ed Glaeser’s Straw Man on Common Core (by Jim Stergios)

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In today’s Globe, Ed Glaeser, an economist by trade and…

Federal Fig Leaf or Flexibility? (by Ted Rebarber)

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As the fight over the national Common Core academic standards…

Anti-Common Core News Round-up (May 3): Daily Caller, Heritage, AFT, Ed Week, Wash Times, IN, MO, NY, WI, ID, TN, AZ

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As opposition to Common Core national  education standards picks…

What Anti-Common Core Activism in Tennessee Portends

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Across the country, from Florida to Michigan, Colorado to Alabama,…

Advice to the President and Arne Duncan

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

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…

Huck, Jim and our interest in education

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Twain famously noted that the difference between the right…

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…

The SCOTUS ruling’s impact on education policy

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Internet traffic has been especially heavy for the past 32…

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…

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…

Moving the Goalposts on NCLB

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Massachusetts and nine other states made news last week by…

Rise of the Zune Monopolists

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"Understand, I am not for monopoly when we can help it,”…

National standards will define local curricula

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I don’t know why (well, actually, I do) the national standards…

Myths about National Standards: Myth #2

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The French painter, poet, novelist, director, etc., Jean Cocteau…

Myths About National Standards: Myth #1

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Being half Greek and long a admirer of Classical Antiquity,…

What will adoption of national standards cost Massachusetts schools?

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It’s always struck me as odd that with all the talk about…

Halloween, Headless Horsemen and Literature in our Schools

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The Headless Horseman, painting by John Quidor. In this season…

What if Bill Gates rewarded results?

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Last winter, two things clarified my views on the utility of…

National standards’ process and substance abuse

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For a while it looked like all of thinking Washington was gaga…

Arne Duncan gets sent to the principal’s office

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US Education Secretary Arne Duncan is losing his allies fast.…