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Carol Burris Explains Why She Supports Every Child Achieves Act
Carol Burris, who recently retired as principal of South Side High School in Rockville Center, Néw York, here explains why she supports the Every Child Achieves Act. She writes: “It forbids the Federal...
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Civil Rights Groups Call for End to High-Stakes Testing and School Closings,...
A large coalition of grassroots groups and civil rights organizations wrote a powerful letter to the leaders of the U.S. Senate and every member of the Senate expressing their views about what...
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Senate Rejects Amendment to Permit Parents to Opt Out of Federally-Mandated...
Emma Brown reports in The Washington Post that the Senate turned down an amendment that would have allowed parents to opt out of federally mandated tests without penalty. The lead author of the...
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More About the Murphy Amendment, in Which Democrats Want “Tougher...
Emma Brown of the Washington Post has a good article about the Murphy amendment, which Democrats favored and Republicans opposed. The chamber voted 54 to 43 against the amendment, which aimed to give...
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Duane Swacker: Are You Pressured to Get Higher Scores?
Duane Swacker, teacher and loyal blog discussant, redponds to a comment with a suggestion: “I teach in SC and we have the same pressure.” Can we get 50 states chiming in??? I teach in MO and we have...
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Mercedes Schneider: Why There Will Be No Federal Sanctions for Opt Out
Mercedes Schneider has followed the development of the new federal legislation to replace the failed No Child Left Behind. She is one of the few people in the U.S. who has actually read every word of...
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Schneider and Greene Give a Lesson to Jonathan Alter
Jonathan Alter is an insightful writer about politics but knows little about education. He doesn’t like public education. Unfortunately, he thinks he is an education expert. He had a starring role in...
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Carol Burris: School Closures: A Failed National Strategy
Carol Burris, the executive director of the Network for Public Education, writes here about the ruinous, failed policy of closing schools because of their test scores. This odious, undemocratic...
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What John Boehner’s Resignation Means for Education
This is a scary possibility. The rewrite of No Child Left Behind was on track after months of work. This is from the Washington Post: — Even the rewrite of the No Child Left Behind education law, which...
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Peter Greene on the Democratic Debate: Not Even a Bridesmaid
Peter Greene watched the debate and became outraged, as only he can. So this is how it’s going to be. The GOP is going to have a cartoon discussion about education, focusing on how to use charters to...
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