Feel that boot on the neck yet?

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As the National Governor Association and the Council of Chiefs…

Stop floating – start swimming

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Monica Brady-Meyerov has an interesting report on WBUR. Seems…

Innovation Smithovation

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We often hear about how charter schools are so innovative. And…

National scholarship on education

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NCLB had its day and advanced some useful trends at the state…

MA & FL should get together to drive ed reform in US

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I often say two things in different ways: (1) MA is #1 on the…

IN says no thanks to RttT

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So I guess Arne Duncan's "pretty please" letter to the Governors…

Disappointing piece from Dave Driscoll in the Globe

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Former MA education commissioner David Driscoll opined today…

Kansas: Keep your Race to yourself

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Kansas is not applying for Race to the Top funds, according to…

Who's Milquetoast? The envelope please…

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So some of you did not get the reference to Caspar Milquetoast,…

Watering down Milquetoast

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Jamie Vaznis in today's Globe presents a bombshell: The state’s…

Municipal Benchmarks for Massachusetts Middle Cities: Educational Achievement

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A Look at Educational Achievement Author(s): Dr. Robert D. Gaudet…

How Washington is undermining the Bay State's high education standards

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We did not miss out on the Race to the Top primarily because…

Why MA finished 13th of 16 on the Race to the Top

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Yesterday's piece in the Globe by Jamie Vaznis strikes me as…

Race to the Top out of reach

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Holy s^&*! Jamie Vaznis of the Boston Globe is reporting that…

Are Large-Scale School Turnarounds A Myth?

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Tough editorial from the WSJ today, calling the "doubling down"…

Hit the accelerator!

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That's my takeaway from the 2009 NAEP reading results. Here are…

MA tops nation in reading for 3rd time in a row

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From the Department of Education's press release: "Massachusetts…

Calling all reporters!

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My last blog noted that states will now have to adopt the common…

EdWeek: Adopt standards or forget RttT funds

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Yesterday, the Globe published an editorial that made the reasonable…

Don't give up pole position on standards!

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There is little to add to today's Globe editorial on academic…

Kudos to Anne Wass

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Jamie Vaznis leads the Globe with a story that really needs a…

NY Times decades behind on standards

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The editorial on the national standards in today’s New York…

MetroWest Daily: Not these national standards

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The MetroWest Daily today also published a different op-ed piece…

Worcester T&G: Keep nat'l standards voluntary

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Today's Worcester Telegram & Gazette editorial underscores that…

Wurman & Stotsky skewer the proposed national standards

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In the past days, the announcements by Minnesota and Virginia…

Our Stand on Standards

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Seems our report and the release of the common core standards…

And now VA takes a pass on national standards

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Bob Stuart of the News Virginian reports that now Virginia won’t…

Hole punched in national standards effort

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As Sam Dillon of the New York Times noted our opposition to the…