John Steele Gordon on America’s Economic Rise
…is a national disgrace. you know, I wrote a history of the national debt called Hamilton’s blessing because Hamilton wrote that a national debt will be for us a national…
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Supreme Debt Consideration: Will Biden’s Student Debt Cancellation Get Passing Grade?
/by Editorial Staff…which says that if there is a national emergency like the COVID pandemic, which was declared a national emergency by Trump, then the government can potentially waive or modify regulations…
National Park Service Attracts Cape Cod Summer Visitors
/by Harris Foulkes…employees working for the National Park Service, there is a targeted effort to protect the beauty of Cape Cod and its 40 miles of National Seashore that play such a…
Wall Street Journal: Conservatives Oppose National Standards
/by Editorial Staffhttp://blog.heritage.org/2012/05/09/wall-street-journal-conservatives-oppose-national-standards/ Opponents of national standards and tests see the push as furthering “federal intrusion into state education matters,” asserts the Wall Street Journal today. While the standards have been touted…
The wrong lesson on national standards
/by Jim Stergios…of national standards know their history and what is legal and illegal, and why all this was a bad idea. Well, I just watched this national standards promo video by…
Johns Hopkins’ Dr. David Steiner on Teaching Wisdom in Schools
/by Editorial Staff…are assessed by tests that are largely skills based, not content based, right? Because we can’t agree on a national curriculum or even a state level curriculum, we’ve got to…
Gov. Jindal’s Common Core Lawsuit Draws on Pioneer’s Research
/by Editorial StaffBOSTON – The legal complaint issued by Governor Jindal’s office clearly builds off Pioneer Institute’s white paper “The Road to a National Curriculum,” co-authored by former U.S. Department of Education…
Accountability Overboard: Massachusetts poised to toss out the nation’s most successful reforms
/by Editorial Staff…some of Patrick’s speeches. More recently, Patrick chaired the platform committee for the Democratic National Convention that nominated Obama. But we can only hope their similarities don’t extend to education…
Study: New Technology, Relaxation of Protections Threaten Student Privacy
/by Editorial Staff…Students for STEM; How Common Core’s ELA Standards Place College Readiness at Risk; Common Core Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade; The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects…
Education news from other states
/by Jim Stergios…a thus-far postponed debate on where proficiency will be set (cut scores), and a manifesto issued by the Shanker Institute arguing for a national curriculum. The tentacles of the Gates…
Ed Glaeser’s Straw Man on Common Core (by Jim Stergios)
/by Jim Stergios…test will lift performance of U.S. students. There are nations that have national standards and tests that do better than the US on international assessments; others that do worse. There…
Author Nicholas Basbanes on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & the Spirit of American Poetry
/by Editorial Staff…2016, he was awarded a Public Scholar research fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities, his second NEH grant, for work on Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry…
U.S. Manufacturing Health: Does the U.S. Need an Industrial Policy?
/by Editorial Staff…Lincicome. Mr. Lincicome writes on international and domestic economic issues, including international trade, subsidies and industrial policy, manufacturing global supply chains, and economic dynamism for Cato and The Dispatch. [00:01:44]…
UCLA’s Prof. James Stigler on Teaching & Learning Math
/by Editorial Staff…so it includes curriculum, teaching and learning, culture, students, curriculum, materials. I mean, there’s so much involved in education, and we do have a tendency to try to zero in…
2018AnnualReport
/by Editorial Staff…leading the national movement for high-quality, state-based K–12 education standards. In 2018, Common Core-aligned national tests continue in less than a quarter of their original member states. After extensive Pioneer…
UK’s Charles Moore on Lady Margaret Thatcher & Cold War Leadership
/by Editorial Staff…what I’m thinking about. I am just shocked by high. Attention. One of the issues that I think is really important is getting a lot of other issues, national, international…
Common Core Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade
/by Editorial Staff…racing to the top nationally; we’re already there. Adopting the national standards slows us in the real competition – the one between Massachusetts and countries with the world’s best education…
39th U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky for National Poetry Month
/by Editorial Staff…think we’re gonna have a lot of great discussions and conversations with him. And in case you didn’t know, April is National Poetry Month as well. So, I want to…
NYU Law Prof. Richard Epstein on the Founders’ Constitution & Federalism
/by Editorial Staff…that I don’t know if I’ve had a chance to sing this song, but the one by Willie Nelson on the road again so I was on the road again,…
Don’t Count Your Chickens Before Elections: Tony Bennett’s Defeat in Indiana
/by Jim Stergios…EdWeek’s “Leadership Forum” sent an email invitation entitled “Save the Date: Road Maps to Common Core Success in March 2013.” I invite you to attend Road Maps to Common Core…
NYU’s Dr. Arthur Levine on Higher Education’s Future & Improving K-12 Teacher Preparation
/by Editorial Staff…of Higher Education at New York University, President Emeritus of Teachers College, Columbia University, and President Emeritus of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Levine has written 13 books, including…
AEI’s Robert Pondiscio on E.D. Hirsch, Civic Education, & Charter Public Schools
/by Editorial Staff…wrote. Good piece in national affairs about how to restore trust and public institutions, really public schooling. For some of our listeners, they may not be aware of national affairs….
Study Finds Poetry Slighted in Common Core English Standards
/by Editorial Staff…How Common Core’s ELA Standards Place College Readiness at Risk; Common Core Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade; The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common…
New Study Suggests Remedies for Common Core Literature Deficit
/by Editorial Staff…the Pacific Research Institute, Pioneer released a research paper, The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers,…
NYT Best Seller Dr. Kate Clifford Larson on Fannie Lou Hamer & the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
/by Editorial Staff…curriculum guides, public history, initiatives, tour guides, and numerous publications. She all has that under her belt. Dr. Larson has appeared on local national and international television, including personal favorites,…
Rutgers Prof. Paul Israel on Thomas Edison, Inventions, & American Patents
/by Editorial Staff…know, you and I will both be at the national summit on education later this week, which is exactly. And I’m very much looking forward to that and it eager…
Mt. Holyoke’s Pulitzer-Winning Prof. Joseph Ellis on John Adams & American Independence
/by Editorial Staff…national publications, such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. Ellis’ commentaries have been…
Don't give up pole position on standards!
/by Jim Stergios…to use the national standards as a floor, or simply to offer financial incentives for states to improve on recognized national and international assessment vehicles. Said it once, twice, 30…