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The Texas standards controversy: You decide
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Gilbert King notes in his blog that
Ironically, it was textbooks…
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Ho-hum to the Guv on education
This morning on the Todd and Tom show on WRKO, Joe Battenfield…
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Massachusetts gets Race to the Top grant
The Race to the Top grants have been made and Massachusetts…
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Ed Commish "blatantly violated the law"
Patrick Anderson at the Gloucester Times reports today that Superior…
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Day 9 – Tested innovation for failing urban schools
Countdown to World-Class Schools summarizes 12 actions the incoming…
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Day 8: Give Urban Kids Access to a Rich Liberal Arts Curriculum
Countdown to World-Class Schools summarizes 12 actions the incoming…
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On national standards, you get what you pay for
This week, State House News broke a story on the “cozy relationship”…
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Great news on Roxbury Prep Charter School
Here is a great outcome from the passage of the charter school…
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Well, so much for objective analysis : MA DESE and RttT one more time
The Secretary and Commissioner of Education have repeatedly…
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National standards talking points
Across the country, the NGA and the CCSSO will be using these…
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Who's Milquetoast? The envelope please…
So some of you did not get the reference to Caspar Milquetoast,…
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Watering down Milquetoast
Jamie Vaznis in today's Globe presents a bombshell:
The state’s…
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How Washington is undermining the Bay State's high education standards
We did not miss out on the Race to the Top primarily because…
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Why MA finished 13th of 16 on the Race to the Top
Yesterday's piece in the Globe by Jamie Vaznis strikes me as…
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Race to the Top out of reach
Holy s^&*! Jamie Vaznis of the Boston Globe is reporting that…
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Are Large-Scale School Turnarounds A Myth?
Tough editorial from the WSJ today, calling the "doubling down"…
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EdWeek: Adopt standards or forget RttT funds
Yesterday, the Globe published an editorial that made the reasonable…
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Don't give up pole position on standards!
There is little to add to today's Globe editorial on academic…
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NY Times decades behind on standards
The editorial on the national standards in today’s New York…
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MetroWest Daily: Not these national standards
The MetroWest Daily today also published a different op-ed piece…
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Worcester T&G: Keep nat'l standards voluntary
Today's Worcester Telegram & Gazette editorial underscores that…
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Wurman & Stotsky skewer the proposed national standards
In the past days, the announcements by Minnesota and Virginia…
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And now VA takes a pass on national standards
Bob Stuart of the News Virginian reports that now
Virginia won’t…
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Hole punched in national standards effort
As Sam Dillon of the New York Times noted our opposition to the…
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Why soft skills are pernicious
Way back in February 2009, we criticized a report issued by the…
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