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Our View: Keep the Hotel Subsidy Out of the BCEC Expansion Bill
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Today (Thursday), the Massachusetts State Senate is planning…
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WCVB Team 5 Reports on Pioneer’s Analysis of $92M Boston Fire Contract
Pioneer Institute Executive Director Greg Sullivan appeared on…
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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…
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Massachusetts to Default to Healthcare.gov, After Hail Mary to Save Its Exchange
Yesterday Massachusetts officials announced plans to default…
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Orchard Gardens Against the Machine
Yvonne Abraham's column this week bemoaned the resignation of…
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Building the Machine – a review
What is Common Core? How did it start--and who drove it? Are…
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Government Transparency: A Step Forward
Governor Deval Patrick launched the MassResults web page to…
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100+ Unanswered Questions about the Failed Connector ACA Website
As a result of the failed Connector website, 160,000 Massachusetts…
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What Reporters Think They Know about Common Core
The public is ill-served by reporters who are no longer skeptical…
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Watch “Building the Machine,” New Common Core Movie
"Building the Machine" is an excellent primer on the fatal deficiencies…
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Mass Connector Called Before Congress To Explain Failed Rollout
Chris Cassidy at the Boston Herald is reporting that Jean Yang,…
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Audio: Lead Mathematics Standards-Writer William McCallum
These audio clips are from Professor William McCallum's remarks…
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Debunking Common Core Myths
One of the most interesting phenomena in the “Common Core War”…
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Pioneer’s Transparency Update: “Sunshine Week” Edition
While sunshine in government operations should be a 365-day calling,…
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Massachusetts Deserves Better Education Leadership
Massachusetts Deserves Better Education Leadership
Education…
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ACA Spiking Premiums in Massachusetts, More Than 300 Cancellations of Plans
The Patrick Administration has been publicly touting that health…
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Setting the Record Straight on Common Core Part 2
Pioneer Institute has been a prime mover in the debate over Common…
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Common Core Math’s House of Hay
More than once, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has described…
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The Dog Ate DCF’s Report Card
It looks like the besieged folks down at the Division of Children…
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Fordham’s Petrilli Rodeo Clowning for ObamaCore, Gates $$, & the Great Society
Commentary magazine did a great blog about how Common Core is…
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Is the Commissioner of Education Complying with the Law?
Twenty years after the passage of the landmark Massachusetts…
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Video: Setting the Record Straight on Common Core
There is so much misinformation on all sides of the debate on…
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Who’s Responsible for the MBTA Retirement Fund
It cannot have been a particularly merry Christmas for Stephen…
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MassDOT’s Cost Savings Dead End
In a joint press release praising the Transportation Reform…
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Let’s Not Waver on Testing: An Open Letter to MA Education Commissioner
In the letter below, Pioneer Institute Executive Director Jim…