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Laura Chapman: Education Trust and Its Well-Funded Demands That the Biden Administration Deny Waivers from the Tests

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7March 8, 2021March 9, 2021

March 8, 2021March 9, 2021031

As readers are well aware, the federal law called the Every Student Succeeds Act continued the mandated annual testing of students in grades 3-8 in...

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Who Signed the Pro-Testing Appeals?

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7March 5, 2021March 6, 2021

March 5, 2021March 6, 2021034

Education Trust, led by former Secretary of Education John King, sent two letters to the Biden administration, urging the administration not to allow states to...

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Laura Chapman on Bill Gates’ Hubris, Ignorance, and Folly

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7October 22, 2017December 6, 2020

October 22, 2017December 6, 2020023

A couple of days ago, Bill Gates said he has a new plan to reform education. As I pointed out in a post, Bill Gates...

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Bruce Baker on the Hoax of Tech-Based Solutions to the Cost of Education

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 11, 2017December 6, 2020

September 11, 2017December 6, 2020018

Bruce Baker of Rutgers University shows in this post that the dream of cutting costs by replacing teachers with computers has been oversold and is...

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Success Academy, Known for Harsh Discipline and Skimming Students, Wins Broad Prize

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7June 12, 2017December 6, 2020

June 12, 2017December 6, 2020025

Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy charter chain, known for its harsh discipline and cherryocking students, won the Broad Prize for Charter Schools. http://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25920011&item=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.edweek.org%2Fv1%2Fblog%2F129%2F%3Fuuid%3D72531 In the past...

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Here Are John King’s Accountability Regs, Revoked by Senate

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7March 9, 2017December 7, 2020

March 9, 2017December 7, 2020022

The U.S. Department of Education may pull this off its website. Download it now. These are John King’s accountability regulations, based on FLORIDA accountability, including...

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The Republicans in Senate Did Something Right!

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7March 9, 2017December 7, 2020

March 9, 2017December 7, 2020023

Give credit where credit is due: Even though the Republican majority in the Senate seems eager to privatize public schools, for fun and credit and...

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SomeDam Poet: Recap of Education Reform, in Rhyme

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7January 26, 2017December 7, 2020

January 26, 2017December 7, 2020020

Thoughts on the recent events in education reform, by our blog Poet: “The Maestro” (A brief historical recap for those who...

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New Advocacy Group Condemns Federal Teacher Prep Regulations as Costly and Harmful

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7November 1, 2016December 7, 2020

November 1, 2016December 7, 2020019

A new advocacy group weighs in on the toxic efforts by John King to control teacher education and exacerbate the nation’s teacher shortage. King is...

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What John King Said at His Press Conference Yesterday: He Still Doesn’t Care About Public Schools

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7October 20, 2016December 7, 2020

October 20, 2016December 7, 2020020

Sam Husseini of the Institute for Public Accuracy invited me and several others to submit questions for John King’s press conference at the National Press...

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