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Pioneer focuses on four policy issues that we believe are critical…
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The Civil Rights Issue of Our Era
Black History Month may have come and gone but Pioneer believes…
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Is it Time to Rethink State Boards of Education?
Some political officials (Governor Sandoval of Nevada) and self-described…
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Don’t Waste the Crisis over Common Core
The entire Common Core project is rapidly going south, and within…
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Arne Duncan, fiction writer
News flash for Washington watchers! Now we know what Arne Duncan…
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Thoughts on what everyone hates talking about (testing)
No one wants to talk about testing except the people that want…
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Steps for States to Follow to Replace Common Core
To help out governors and state legislatures that really want…
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Common Core’s standards can be replaced by first-rate standards overnight
In a funny story in the Washington Post on December 24, 2014,…
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How to Make Common Core Useful?
What could be done to make the idea of a common core across 50…
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How to Maintain the Massachusetts “Education Miracle”
Not by using Common Core-based standards and tests, for sure,…
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Jeb Bush’s Rhetoric and Reality on Common Core
Pioneer Institute respects Governor Jeb Bush’s education reform…
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How Colleges Are Dumbing Our Kids Down, Too, and What We Can Do About It
It’s not just Common Core’s standards and the curriculum…
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Massachusetts Gubernatorial Candidates on K-12 Education Policy
K-12 education policy too often is the province of powerful special…
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Those Mathematical Societies That Supposedly Endorsed Common Core’s Standards Didn’t
Stanford University mathematics professor R. James Milgram included…
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BPS’ all-in adoption of PARCC is bad for kids, and is illegal
A front page article by Jamie Vaznis in the Boston Globe…
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Doubling Down on Doublespeak
This past week, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by…
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We Now Have a Smart Exit Strategy from Common Core
Rick Hess and Mike McShane back in the spring wrote in the…
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What Wakefield, NH’s School Board Is Doing to Ensure a First-Rate Education for All Its Students
As state legislatures begin to pick up steam in their efforts…
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Pioneer Institute Statement on Senate Charter School Cap Lift Vote
The Senate Turns Back the Clock
Today, the Massachusetts State…
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Representative misrepresenting
Chalk this one up to elected officials representing people other…
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On Common Core, a Study in Contrasts
In a front-page article in June, the Washington Post featured…
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7 Major Differences between No Child Left Behind and Common Core/Race to the Top
1. Focus of Accountability: Schools or Teachers
Under No Child…
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Massachusetts Charter Schools: “A Fire You Can’t Put Out”
This past week, at the urging of state K-12 education commissioner…
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Public Statement on MA BESE Vote Limiting Charter School Enrollment
Today, at the recommendation of Commissioner Mitchell Chester,…
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How to Turn a Sow’s Ear into a Silk Purse
Gates, Duncan, Fordham et al misunderstood from the beginning…
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To Be a National Curriculum, or Not to Be a National Curriculum: More Fordham-Finn Flip Flopping
Who says that Common Core ELA cuts classic literature, poetry,…
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The Globe on Common Core and Poetry
It is not stereotyping poets to say that they burn with a particular…
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Legislative Common Core Remedy No Panacea
The next phase of the Great Game to control the minds of the…
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A Fractured Testing Landscape
One of the benefits of waking up at 3 am to do some work is that…
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Another Misleading Attack on Charter Schools from the BTU
A recent Boston Teachers Union e-bulletin grossly misrepresented…