KaiPod Learning’s Amar Kumar on Homeschooling Pods & Blended Education
…from beautiful, leaf-covered Charlottesville, Virginia, where I just had a chance to pull together eight bags of leaves. I’ve been on the road a lot like Willie Nelson on the…
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Hillsdale’s Dr. Kathleen O’Toole on K-12 Classical Education
/by Editorial Staff…college, we provide curriculum, we provide teacher training, we provide all of the things that it takes to establish an excellent K-12 school. [00:07:33] Kathleen: And that work I got…
Man versus Superman
/by Jim Stergios…poorly trained and have no say over their curriculum or, more often than not, no curriculum at all. “I know you have a lot on your plate,” I concluded. “But…
Lipan Apache Tribe’s Pastor Robert Soto on Native American Heritage Month & Religious Liberty
/by Editorial Staff…of board of director members across the country, including Virginia. [00:05:13] Some actually decided to disaffiliate with the national organization. And there were a number of protests. There were some…
Boston Herald: Intrusive to the Core
/by Jamie Gass…Core. Another $362 million in federal grants was doled out to two national consortia that are developing common assessments to “help” states transition to nationalized standards and tests. In their…
Study: New Massachusetts Science Standards Inferior To Their Predecessors
/by Editorial Staff…recommendations of noted national expert BOSTON – As a result of ignoring input from a distinguished national expert, Massachusetts’ Next Generation Science Standards adopted last spring by the state Board…
Lowering the Bar: How Common Core Math Fails to Prepare Students for STEM
/by Editorial Staff…standards includes: Common Core Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade; The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional…
2021AnnualReport
/by Editorial Staff…College, and as a judge in the We the People national student competition. He also curated hundreds of curriculum materials on history and government, promoted online and via email. As…
Setting the Record Straight on Common Core Part 2
/by Editorial Staff…of Aligning States and Localities to Common Core The Road to a National Curriculum Controlling Education from the Top Why Race to the Middle? Fair to Middling: A National Standards…
Book Finds Massachusetts Voc-Tech Schools Are National Model, Calls for Expansion
/by Editorial Staff…Pioneer Executive Director Jim Stergios. “Massachusetts is now the unquestioned leader in vocational-technical education, with graduates among the best-prepared to compete in the global economy.” “Hands-On Achievement: Massachusetts’s National Model…
Patriot Ledger: Changes in teaching leave Huck Finn out in the cold
/by Jamie Gass…across most of the country may soon have to seek out Huckleberry Finn on their own, because it isn’t included in national K-12 education standards that have been adopted by…
Post-Pandemic Possibilities: Writer Ramesh Ponnuru Offers Insight On What Comes Next
/by Editorial Staffhttps://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chtbl.com/track/G45992/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1033200529-pioneerinstitute-hubwonk-ep-52-post-pandemic-possibilities-writer-ramesh-ponnuru-offers-insight-on-what-comes-next.mp3 Host Joe Selvaggi talks with Bloomberg Opinion writer and National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru about the national zeitgeist in a post-Covid, post-President Trump future. Guest: Ramesh Ponnuru is…
“Be Strong, Saith My Heart” – National Poetry Month – 40 Resources for K-12 Students
/by Jamie GassNational Poetry Month – 40 Resources for K-12 Education “Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.” – Homer, The Odyssey In…
Fallout from election 2012 on education
/by Jim Stergios…(!), and in a blow to supporters of national standards and tests the state superintendent of schools in Indiana got shown the door. In more detail, on federal policy: 1….
NYT Bestseller Jonathan Eig on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
/by Editorial Staff…we have a national holiday for King now, and it’s great that we have a monument for him. Monuments are easy to overlook and national holidays. It’s easy to stick…
An expert’s view of national standards’ focus on non-fiction texts
/by Jim Stergios(Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times) The Common Core national standards are increasingly controversial, with Utah, Indiana and a number of states that had adopted them now reconsidering. A…
Why Race to the Middle? First-Class State Standards Are Better than Third-Class National Standards
/by Editorial StaffFirst-Class State Standards Are Better than Third-Class National Standards Author(s): Ze’ev Wurman and Sandra Stotsky — Publication date: 2010-02-23 Category: Education Abstract: The case for national standards rests on more…
Does Mass. Exclude Low-Achievers from National Education Tests?
/by Jim StergiosLast week, in reporting the national test results on how our public schools are doing, I noted that while It is wonderful that Massachusetts has maintained its lead nationally, ……
The Mysterious World of NCAA Apparel Contracts
/by Prasanna Rajasekaran…an NCAA Division 1 school, but it’s far from a national sports powerhouse. It does not play regularly on national TV, and hardly ever competes for a national championship in…
Hole punched in national standards effort
/by Jim StergiosAs Sam Dillon of the New York Times noted our opposition to the national standards effort because it would weaken the Massachusetts standards. And now the opposition builds. Governor Pawlenty…
Mitt Romney Homeland Security Record In Massachusetts: Domestic Spying, Wiretapping
/by Editorial Staff…a National Governors Association task force on homeland security and as head of a national Homeland Security Advisory Council task force, he urged state and local agencies to join the…
Consolidating Off-Road Vehicle Registration
/by Pioneer Institute…RMV to register all motor vehicles—boats, ATVs and snowmobiles included. This consolidation would bring significant savings while actually improving service for off-road vehicle owners. Download Report: Consolidating Off-Road Vehicle Registration…
Why go down this road again
/by Jim StergiosMore on the Patrick administration’s moves to gut education reform. The Patrick proposal creates a Secretary of Education. It gives the Secretary broad budgetary power, reducing the Commissioner of Education…
Study: Charter Schools Delivering on Promise of Curricular Innovation
/by Editorial Staff…them private – to offer the rigorous International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum and diploma program that is recognized by the world’s top universities. Eleven of the 96 members of Mystic Valley’s…
New Book Calls on States to Improve U.S. History and Civics Education
/by Editorial Staff…districts can foster understanding of and curiosity about our nation’s history. “The importance of a strong U.S. history and civics curriculum cannot be overstated. Yet states have abandoned their teaching…
Day 8: Give Urban Kids Access to a Rich Liberal Arts Curriculum
/by Jim Stergios…this blog entry a couple of days ago, before yesterday’s disastrous vote by the Massachusetts Board of Education to adopt national standards that are (1) in many ways very different…
Will Michael Brickman, Tim Shanahan, Politifact, Fox News, and USA Today do some careful reading, please? (by Sandra Stotsky)
/by Sandra Stotsky…the confusion that David Coleman and Susan Pimentel created in the English curriculum, in reporters’ minds, and in the minds of so-called policy advisers. Please take note: Michael Brickman, Tim…
Economic Long Covid: Mixed Health Messages for Baystate Businesses
/by Editorial Staff…Policy Commission Advisory Council, and the Workforce Competitive Trust Fund Advisory Committee. Hurst has served on numerous non-profit boards, including the Beverly YMCA, Beverly Main Streets, the National Retail Federation,…
Draft History and Social Studies Frameworks Continue Trend Toward Dumbing Down Public School Content
/by Editorial StaffWeaker ELA and math standards have already produced declines in student achievement BOSTON – The draft of the Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Frameworks that was released for public…
PRI’s Lance Izumi on Charter Schools & School Choice
/by Editorial Staff…one for—drum roll—four decades. So when one of your top teachers in the state, arguably someone who would be put into a national category of math expert says, I’ve been…