Op-ed: Why Mass. must not let up on testing students
…the Commonwealth’s students became the nation’s best performers. The law worked not only because it was good policy, but because the grand bargain at its core — a massive infusion…
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U-OK’s Dan Hamlin on Emerging School Models & Learning Loss
/by Editorial Staff…questions around this not to be answered now, but I’m just going to, you know, throw them out there. [00:03:04] I’m wondering the impact of our move to Common Core….
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Cuts Ties to ALEC
/by Editorial Staff…Force is documented in task force agendas and materials obtained by Common Cause and publicly released last week. The Education Task Force is currently co-chaired by Connections Academy, a for-profit…
A big test at Madison Park Vocational
/by Editorial Staff…assistance, the Review Team also believes that Madison Park needs more flexibility. This core principal has already been recognized around the Commonwealth, since most of the regional vocational technical high…
Mitt Romney announces education policy team
/by Editorial Staff…education a core part of his campaign, mentioning struggles that students may have finding jobs or paying off college loans but rarely wading into education policy. But that could change…
Accountability Overboard: Massachusetts poised to toss out the nation’s most successful reforms
/by Editorial Staff…for high academic standards, accountability, and enhanced school choice. In the years following, the Commonwealth’s independent board of education, founded in 1837 with Horace Mann at the helm, implemented a…
Baker’s Dozen: A Common Sense Healthcare Agenda for the Next Governor
/by Editorial StaffPioneer Institute is pleased to present, “Baker’s Dozen: A Common Sense Healthcare Agenda for the Next Governor” – 13 steps we can take that cover everything from transforming incentives in…
UChicago’s Dr. Leon Kass on Genesis, Exodus, & Reading Great Books
/by Editorial Staff…teaching of the Bible, actually the Hebrew prophets without the law. But when I began to teach Genesis in a common core humanities class at the university of Chicago, I…
Oxford & UCLA Pulitzer Winner Prof. Daniel Walker Howe on Horace Mann, Common Schools, & Educating for Democracy
/by Editorial Staff…the Massachusetts State Board of Education, founder of the common school movement in public education, and a prominent abolitionist in Congress. They explore Mann’s vision of primary and secondary public…
U.S. gives Mass. waiver from No Child Left Behind
/by Editorial Staff…Massachusetts schools and 90 percent of school districts were deemed as failing last year. “That just flies in the face of common sense, and it is not useful at all,”…
Race to the Top out of reach
/by Jim Stergios…followed by an expedited arbitration process, could, I’ll bet, take just as long as the current arbitration process. How is it common sense to think that you need a thick…
Evaluate teachers with a single or multiple measures?
/by Editorial Staff…Rather than using their research to explain that these common preferences for multiple measures are inconsistent with the evidence, the Gates folks want to appease this constituency so that they…
Dr. Peter Wood on Diversity and Anger in America
/by Editorial Staff…1979. I see this as a problem that’s part and parcel of a larger problem of Americans being divided, not having a common sense of identity, not having a common…
Vaccine Development Renaissance: Pandemic Brings Niche Industry into Mainstream
/by Editorial Staff…It, you reach an equilibrium with, with the virus and it will come back and COVID will be like a fifth virus. But it won’t be like the common cold….
Local Elections Matter: City Governance Driven by Those Who Show Up
/by Editorial Staff…common concerns that all of us share? Montez: Well, all right. Common concerns for the district. When you go up and down the district, the 8th district has poor road…
Public Union Constitutionality: Returning Government Accountability to the People
/by Editorial Staff…of the Common Good (Ballantine Books, 2002), Life Without Lawyers (W.W. Norton, 2009), The Rule of Nobody (W.W. Norton, 2014), and Try Common Sense (W.W. Norton, 2019). His commentaries are…
SCOTUS Gun Stun: Bearing Arms in Summer Bruen Decision
/by Editorial Staff…a difference. Joe Selvaggi: If we’re going down this road towards talking about, you know, common arguments for restrictions, one of the common arguments for a gun advocacy is that…
A Critical Review of the Massachusetts Next Generation Science and Technology/Engineering Standards
/by Stan MetzenbergMassachusetts’ draft pre-K through introductory high school Science and Technology / Engineering standards contain such startling gaps in science that they should be withdrawn from consideration. Download Report: A Critical…
Kevin Chavous, Keynote, “No More Know Nothing Laws: School Choice in Massachusetts”
/by Editorial StaffThe Pioneer Institute presents “No More Know Nothing Laws: School Choice in Massachusetts” featuring Kevin Chavous. March 15, 2012 Hyatt Regency Boston….
Education Reform in Massachusetts: Pioneer Institute’s 20 Anniversary Celebration
/by Editorial StaffFormer Massachusetts Governor William Weld, Former Massachusetts Senate President Thomas Birmingham, Former Massachusetts Legislator and Pittsburgh Superintendent Mark Roosevelt, former state Education Commissioner David Driscoll, and former Secretary of Education…
Thomas F. Birmingham, Former Massachusetts Senate President
/by Editorial StaffThis video features Thomas F. Birmingham, Former Massachusetts Senate President and co-author of the 1993 Massachusetts Education Reform Law. He was a Keynote speaker at the event, “20 Years of…
Melville readies students for rough seas ahead
/by Jamie GassRead this op-ed in The Berkshire Eagle, The Salem News, and The Gloucester Daily Times. By Jamie Gass BOSTON — “For all his tattooings he was on the whole a…
Remarks at 25th Anniversary Event for the Massachusetts Education Reform Act
/by Tom Birmingham…the Commonwealth is veering away from basic principles of the law that produced that success at a State House event marking the 25th anniversary of the Education Reform Act. Download…
20 Years of Education Reform Roundtable Panel Discussion
/by Editorial StaffThis video presents the panel discussion from the Pioneer forum: “20 Years of Education Reform,” featuring Tripp Jones of New Profit, Inc., Sandra Stotsky, Emerita Professor of Education Reform at…
What Goes Up Must Come Down: New, Lower K-12 Science Standards for Massachusetts
/by Paul GrossThis paper, the second of a two-part analysis, finds that Massachusetts’ Next Generation Science Standards adopted last spring by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) fall short….
Setting Academic Performance Standards MCAS vs PARCC
/by Richard PhelpsAuthor and career testing expert Dr. Richard Phelps writes that adopting PARCC would result in a one-half year drop in performance expectations for 4th grade math and reading, and 8th…
How PARCC’s False Rigor Stunts the Academic Growth of all Students
/by Mark McQuillanThis report concludes that revising and updating MCAS would result in lower costs and more rigorous assessments that would provide better information about student performance than adopting PARCC. Download Report:…
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/by Scott W. Graves…quis sollicitudin ligula rhoncus ac. Support Our Campaign Against Common Core. As a small non-profit, we depend on the generous support of individuals like you to fund our important research…
Support & Defend: The K-12 Education of Military-Connected Children
/by Bruce WykesIn-depth analysis of how the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) provides high-quality education to more than 84,000 eligible Military-Connected Children in more than 190 schools around the world and…