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Storify: Senate HELP Committee ESEA Markup

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Storify: Senate HELP Committee ESEA Markup

Tuesday and Wednesday, the Senate HELP Committee convened to mark up Chairman Tom Harkin's (D-IA) bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. @NewAmericaEd's Anne Hyslop and Conor...

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Waivers (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...

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Update: 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...

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Storify: House Ed & Workforce Committee ESEA Markup

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Storify: 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...

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New CREDO Charter School Study Provides Talking Points for Both Sides

A new report on charter school performance from Stanford’s Center for Research on Educational Outcomes is—like CREDO’s last major report, in 2009—inspiring a host of talking points. With 95 pages of...

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If Congress Agrees the Era of Big Government is Over, Why Can’t We Get an...

Considering Congress hasn’t figured out how to compromise on student loan interest rates (despite the fact that President Obama and a bipartisan group of Senators proposed shockingly similar plans), it...

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Student 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....

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The Federal Role in Education: Mend it, Don’t End It

A few weeks ago I asked, “if Congress agrees the era of big government is over, why can’t we get an ESEA deal?” Both the Senate Democrats’ and House Republicans’ proposals to rewrite the No Child Left...

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At US News' Debate Club: Fix, Don't Eliminate, the Federal Role in Education

Yesterday, US News & World Report asked five experts in its Debate Club whether the Senate should pass the House’s No Child Left Behind rewrite – the Student Success Act. With the last week's House...

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Do the Math: Christel House’s Grade Doesn’t Add Up

Mel Horowitz: You mean to tell me that you argued your way from a C+ to an A-?  Cher: Totally based on my powers of persuasion, you proud? Mel Horowitz: Honey, I couldn't be happier than if they were...

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The Way We Talk: Accountability

This is the second in a series of posts reflecting on terminology pervading today’s polarizing debates about American education. In each post, we ask how various buzzwords—“professionalism,”...

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Syllabus: Week of August 5, 2013

Welcome to the Syllabus, a guide that provides insight into what’s happening in higher education.  Read:  Students With Credentials Fare Better as Transfers From Community CollegesKatherine Mangan, The...

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Will New Pre-K Accountability Metrics in D.C. Enhance—Or Undercut—Pre-K Quality?

Like many in D.C.’s family-heavy Ward 4, Sam Chaltain sends his children to charter schools. His older son attends Latin American Montessori Bilingual, and his younger son will follow in a few years....

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New K-12 Achievement Data Available from Federal Education Budget Project

The Federal Education Budget Project (FEBP) today announced new K-12 achievement data available on its website for the 2010-2011 academic year.  The data are available at the state level, as well as...

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Plausibility, Politics, and Process: What We Can Learn from Indiana and Tony...

Definition of Plausiblesuperficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious <a plausible pretext>superficially pleasing or persuasive <a swindler… , then a quack, then a smooth,...

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Trading 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...

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The Way We Talk: Choice

This is the fourth in a series of posts reflecting on terminology pervading today’s polarizing debates about American education. In each post, we ask how various buzzwords—“professionalism,”...

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The 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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