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- Missouri’s Show-Me Institute: Where Liberty (and Censorship?) Come First 7 January, 2019
- Letter to NPR’s Ari Shapiro and producers of their “individualized learning” podcast 30 November, 2018
- Common Core Collaborators: Six Organizational Portraits 31 August, 2018
- State of ELA under Common Core 19 July, 2018
- My letter to Bill Gates on how to prepare students for algebra 17 May, 2018
- Nation’s Report Card: Common Core delivering education stagnation 12 April, 2018
- There are Only Two Sides to US Education Policy (Thanks to the Parties) 8 April, 2018
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Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction theparisreview.org/blog/2019/02/0…
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Michigan Voted to End Partisan Gerrymandering; Are Partisan Primaries Next? ivn.us/2019/02/12/mic… via @ivn
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2019 Sees Tremendous Surge in Ranked Choice Legislation Nationwide ivn.us/2019/02/07/201… via @ivn
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s viral video on government corruption just made history. good.is/articles/alexa…
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District of Columbia Public Education Documents: Agreements, Audits, Reports, Requests, etc. Erich Martel nonpartisaneducation.org/DCdocuments.htm
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SCHOLARLY PROWESS OR LEARNED HELPLESSNESS? THE CASE OF NAZARBAYEV INTELLECTUAL SCHOOLS IN KAZAKHSTAN nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Testimo…
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Good Interventions Do NOT Have to be Expensive learningscientists.org/blog/2019/2/7-1
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Monthly Archives: May 2016
Some Common Core Salespersons’ Salaries: DC Edu-Blob-ulants
Linked are copies of Form 990s for Marc Tucker’s National Center for Education and the Economy (NCEE), Checker Finn’s Fordham Foundation and Fordham Institute, and Bob Wise’s Alliance for Excellent Education (AEE). Each pays himself and at least one other … Continue reading
Censorship at Education Next
In response to their recent misleading articles about a fall 2015 Mathematica report that claims to (but does not) find predictive validity for the PARCC test with Massachusetts college students, I wrote the text below and submitted it to EdNext … Continue reading
Hard Work by Students
In my ten years of HS teaching I saw good (hard-working, interested in learning) students do well with good teachers, and ALSO do pretty well with poor teachers… I saw poor (not working, not interested in learning) students do poorly … Continue reading
The Education Writers Association casts its narrowing gaze on Boston, May 1-3
The Education Writers Association casts its narrowing gaze on Boston, May 1-3 Billions have been spent, and continue to be spent, promoting the Common Core Standards and their associated consortium tests, PARCC and SBAC. Nonetheless, the “Initiative” has been stopped … Continue reading
