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The Danger in the Details of the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015
Photo credit: UpstateNYer (CC-By-SA 3.0) The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee recently passed the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 (ECAA) in the hope of finally...
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The Every Child Achieves Act Continues Test-based Accountability
U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) The Senate bill to reauthorize No Child Left Behind (NCLB), titled the Every Child Achieves Act (ECCA), was heard on the Senate floor this past week. Senator Lamar...
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Speaker Paul Ryan, Make ESEA Reauthorization Bill Public for 60 Days
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) after being sworn in. Because the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (No Child Left Behind) will be the largest piece of federal education...
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Collaborative for Student Success Needs to Close Its Own Honesty Gap
Photo credit: Marcin Wichary According to the Collaborative for Student Success website, NAEP – not state assessments – is the better gauge of student performance. They call the difference between the...
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Trump’s Questionable New Education Team
After the grassroots put their faith in Trump’s promises to end Common Core, his appointment of Betsy DeVos, an advocate of the standards, was a huge disappointment to them. Nevertheless, they...
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Is President Trump Being Played by Betsy DeVos and Jeb Bush?
Conservatives have been gratified by some of President Trump’s Cabinet choices but alarmed by others. Observers who remember the first Reagan administration may find parallels between the two...
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Is Anyone Paying Attention to Trump’s Education Team?
Photo credit: 50 Can Is anyone in the White House paying attention to the appointments for Trump’s education team? It’s understandable that with so many pressing policy concerns facing the...
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Federal Influence on State and Local School-Discipline Policies
Much discussion of the Parkland, Florida school shooting has centered on how the discipline policies of the Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) may have been designed not to make the schools safer,...
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Will Indiana Adopt Federalized School Discipline Plans?
Photo Credit: Drew Tarvin (CC-By-2.0) In light of the failures of Broward County Public Schools administrators to report the Florida shooter to law enforcement, the recent passage of legislation that...
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Parkland Shooter Was Involved in PROMISE Program
Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL. After the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, we wrote about the myriad failures of Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) and the...
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