Even when teachers don’t appear to be complaining about Common Core they actually are, because CC is so unpopular that bureaucrats and politicians try to camouflage it. Yet and still, like the spots on a…
Topic: education
College Board’s Biased Liberal Tests may have an Alternative
As WORLD reported, the College Board’s Advanced Placement exams are liberal and heavily biased: The College Board, the massive nonprofit organization responsible for the Advanced Placement Exam as well as the SAT and PSAT tests,…
Academic Privilege By the Numbers
The nation and the Republican Party may or may not need ‘The Donald’ but a cursory look at what statistics we can extract from academia today suggests that the academic world needs somebody like him….
Education Wonk Changes His Mind on Arne Duncan
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Michael Petrilli recently wrote an apologetic op-ed for Fordham’s e-mail newsletter entitled “The new ESEA will be ‘loose-loose’ because Arne Duncan went overboard with ‘tight-tight’.” A champion for Common Core,…
Jeb Bush, John Kasich Distance Themselves from Common Core Support
Looks like they are backtracking way too fast for comfort on their past support of Common Core, huh?
Matching Poor Students to College
Education researchers, college administrators and professors at the American Enterprise Institute expressed concern that more poor kids aren’t going to college. Yet and still, they might be luring people to college who might be better…
Baltimore’s Choice and America’s
In January 2015, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) has introduced the Creating Hope and Opportunity for Individuals and Communities through Education (CHOICE) Act, designed to make vouchers more widely available to the poor so they can…
Pell Grants should go to Prisoners too, says Obama
Well, there you have it: The Obama administration recently announced a new federal grant program that will cover the costs of college for state and federal prisoners. The three- to five-year Second Chance Pell Pilot…
$8 Billion Spent on Teacher Development Have Not Improved Teachers
Wait, spending more money on teachers to help them in professional development doesn’t actually help?! The 50 largest school districts in America collectively spend $8 billion a year on professional development for teachers. What are…
High School Girls Save First Amendment
A pair of high school girls has done something Republican members of Congress only talk about: They saved the First Amendment by actually using it. “In July 2014—the summer before her senior year—Samantha Jones’s father…