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Jenna Robinson’s latest Martin Center column highlights a failure of American education. America’s system of education has failed in one of its most important goals: forming future generations of American…
I point out in my new Q&A publication, “60 Questions About Common Core: Answers for North Carolinians,” that Common Core proponents have a tendency to scoff at, rather than address…
What we know about North Carolina’s implementation of the Common Core State Standards has changed since the John Locke Foundation released 35 Questions About Common Core: Answers for North Carolinians in April…
Good advice… “Here’s a pro-tip for Checker [Chester E. Finn, Jr.] and Common Core’s deep-pocketed backers… As opposition to Common Core grows in state legislatures and schools around the country,…
Checker Finn’s short column on teacher tenure is an entertaining read. Nobody deserves tenure, with the possible exception of federal judges. University professors don?t deserve tenure; civil servants don?t deserve…
View in browser. Welcome This will be my last newsletter of the year. Thank you for making it a success! Bulletin Board The Cartel, an award-winning documentary about corruption in…
I have yet to read Diane Ravitch’s new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System. I highly recommend Checker Finn’s review of the book here. In…
The indispensable Checker Finn has a column in the Dallas Morning News explaining why universal preschool, funded by taxpayers, is neither a necessary nor wise component of an education-reform strategy…
Chester Finn had a revealing piece in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal entitled The Self-Inflicted Economic Death of Ohio. The trouble with Ohio (and Michigan and most of the old northern…
The Editorial Projects in Education Research Center released a report ranking influence in education policy in four categories: studies, organizations, people, and information sources. Here is the top in each…
Checker Finn, President of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, wrote an article yesterday regarding school choice. He made excellent points regarding the number of families exercising choice. Often we just…
In yesterday?s Washington Post, Bill Bennett and Rod Paige jumped on board with Chester Finn in promoting a federal test. What are these guys smoking?? A federal test will drive…