Category Archives: partisanship

Iowa Education Challenges

Posted on 05/08/2026 by Joye Walker

Iowa has a tough combination of a governor and legislative majority who are anti-public schools and anti-teacher but at the same time, a department of education that marches to the Common Core drum and has managed to dumb down the … Continue reading →

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The Malfunction of US Education Policy: Elite Misinformation, Disinformation and Selfishness [book review]

Posted on 04/08/2023 by A.P. Dillon

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, April 2023, 196 pages, ISBN 9781475869941 With scholarly precision, Phelps details the collection of actors that have driven and continue to propel U.S. education policy and preferred narratives. In doing so, he has laid out a … Continue reading →

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Education Next, the Fordham Institute, and Common Core

Posted on 14/07/2019 by Richard P Phelps

In years of observing the behavior of staff at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and Institute I haven’t noticed much of the “open-mindedness and humility” claimed on its website.[1] More common has been a proclivity to suppress dissent, shun or … Continue reading →

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Missouri’s Show-Me Institute: Where Liberty (and Censorship?) Come First

Posted on 07/01/2019 by Richard P Phelps

Last year, in response to one of their blog posts, I submitted a comment to the think tank/advocacy group, the Show-Me Institute, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. I describe what I did, why, and what happened in a Nonpartisan Education … Continue reading →

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Common Core Collaborators: Six Organizational Portraits

Posted on 31/08/2018 by Richard P Phelps

New in the Nonpartisan Education Review: https://nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Articles/CommonCoreCollaborators.htm Phelps, R. P. (2018). Common Core Collaborators: Six Organizational Portraits. Nonpartisan Education Review/Articles, 14(3–7). – The Organization Named Achieve: Cradle of Common Core Cronyism – The Council of Chief State School Officers and … Continue reading →

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There are Only Two Sides to US Education Policy (Thanks to the Parties)

Posted on 08/04/2018 by Richard P Phelps

https://ivn.us/2018/04/03/two-sides-us-education-policy-thanks-parties/ …at the Independent Voter Network website, https://IVN.us

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