At Education Week: The Mismatch Between Half-Day Kindergarten and the Common...
We’ve written before about kindergartners’ widely divergent school experiences, with some attending full-day kindergarten and others offered only half-day classes. Regardless of the amount of time...
View ArticleWhat to Think about the MET Project Results
What can you do with $45 million and three years? Well, if you’re the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, you can confirm, empirically, what educators have always known implicitly: great teaching...
View ArticleCollege-Ready Wars Update: Alabama Leaves Test Consortia
It seems that the stakes in the college-ready war have been raised. Today, Education Week broke the news that Alabama was pulling out as a participant in both Common Core testing consortia, PARCC and...
View ArticleDon’t Forget Full-Day Kindergarten
An under-examined aspect of President Obama’s new early childhood education plan is his proposal to encourage states to create more full-day kindergarten seats – though only after states are able to...
View ArticleSeeing Evidence of Teacher Confidence in the Common Core
With 46 states and the District of Columbia adopting the Common Core State Standards, successful implementation will require a better understanding of teacher preparedness. This proves especially true...
View ArticlePodcast: What Common Standards Mean for Teachers and Their Youngest Students
Last week, Early Ed Watchdescribed two surveys that shed light on what teachers are thinking about the Common Core State Standards, which will soon affect what and how teachers teach in K-12 classrooms...
View ArticleCollege-Ready Wars: Assessing Threats to the Common Core
Although the deadline for all students to achieve proficiency in math and reading has been lifted in most states by No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waivers, 2014 test anxiety is high as ever. That’s...
View ArticleFirst Look: Sen. Harkin’s Strengthening America’s Schools Act
Yesterday, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released yet another attempt to reauthorize No Child Left Behind: the Strengthening America’s...
View ArticleHarkin, Alexander, and Waivers: Your ESEA Markup Cheat Sheet
Tomorrow morning, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will markup the Strengthening America’s Schools Act, the latest ESEA reauthorization proposal from Chairman Tom Harkin...
View ArticleStorify: Senate HELP Committee ESEA Markup
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View ArticleWaivers (of Waivers) Watch: If It Looks Like a Pause, and It Sounds Like a...
Earlier today, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan weighed in on the question of whether states can delay their timeline for using Common Core assessments in accountability systems for schools and...
View ArticleUpdate: A New NCLB Reauthorization Cheat Sheet
After the partisan markup in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, it is the House of Representatives' turn to debate reauthorization of No Child Left Behind. The Student Success...
View ArticleStorify: House Ed & Workforce Committee ESEA Markup
Click here for the Storify of last week's Senate HELP Committee markup.[&lt;a href="//storify.com/claremccann/house-education-and-workforce-committee-esea-marku" target="_blank"&gt;View...
View ArticleStorify: House Ed & Workforce Committee ESEA Markup
On Wednesday, the House Education & Workforce Committee convened to debate Chairman John Kline's (R-MN) proposed Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization. Ranking Member George Miller...
View ArticleStudent Success Act Superlatives: the Best (and Worst) Additions to the House...
Following the world’s speediest markup, the House of Representatives could begin floor debate on the Student Success Act, the House Republican proposal to rewrite No Child Left Behind (NCLB), tomorrow....
View ArticlePre-K Debates: Access and Quality
In the early education policy world, the research consensus supporting public investment in pre-K programs is overwhelming. We know that money spent on these programs leads to big savings in the long...
View ArticleTrading Transparency and Accountability Today for Better Testing Tomorrow
2013-14: the school year all American students, in all public schools, were expected to be proficient in reading and math. It’s finally here. But don’t kid yourself – nobody expects American schools to...
View ArticleStorify: Delaware Education Leaders on Implementing Comprehensive Education...
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View ArticleTired of Federal Gridlock? Take a Look at Education Reform in the States
As the government shutdown continues (with no end yet visible), it’s easy—and wholly understandable—to get cynical. If we can’t manage basic stuff like funding the federal government, it’s hard to...
View ArticleThe Case Against Exit Exams
July 15, 2014Anne HyslopClick here to view PDF In the 2013-14 school year, twenty-four states required students to be proficient on standardized tests in order to graduate from high school. But...
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