Don’t Give Obama More Power Over Schools
After spending most of June giving President Obama new authority to negotiate trade deals with low-wage countries in Asia, Congressional Republicans are now poised to spend July giving…
Category: Education
Education Reporter – July 2015
NGSS Gets in Through Back Doors Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) have been adopted by 13 states and the District of Columbia for K-12 students. They could face…
Education Reporter – June 2015
Students Forced to “Sit and Stare” At Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, Washington, not one junior took Common Core Smarter Balanced (SBAC) standardized tests this spring. At…
Education Reporter – May 2015
Stop Common Core Candidate Pledge In April, Eagle Forum announced the new “STOP Common Core” pledge for candidates and office-holders at every level to sign in order to…
Education Reporter – April 2015
Opting Out of Testing As the standardized testing season begins at public schools, districts are greeting them in a variety of ways. Some districts respect parental objections to…
Education Reporter – March 2015
The Rush to Reauthorize NCLB A plan to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and to revise No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is being rushed through…
Education Reporter – February 2015
Entitlement Promise in SOTU Speech In his annual State of the Union address, President Barack Obama announced a new federal program called “America’s College Promise.” It is a…
New Math on College Campuses
The New York Times published a provocative news story called "The New Math on Campus." No, it's not about the failure of Common Core to teach arithmetic; it's about the…
Education Reporter – January 2015
Illegal Immigrants Strain Many School Districts While New York launches a review of procedures used to enroll illegal immigrant students, Washington, D.C. is straining under the tremendous burden…
Schools Don’t Teach Kids to Read
A high school English teacher at Rosemount High School in Minnesota, which was called a "top ranked school" by the Minnesota Department of Education, given the Blue Ribbon…