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About a decade ago few topics generated more heat than Common Core Standards. The standards, developed by an obscure group of state education officers and embraced by the Obama Administration…
North Carolina public schools will receive over $6 billion in funding to address the academic, emotional, and social impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Such levels of funding present high-risk and…
Martha Bradley-Dorsey and Robert Maranto explain at National Review Online why the new president is unlikely to make meaningful change in America’s public schools. For over a half century, from…
The OECD administers the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests to 15-year-old students from around the world, and results from the 2018 tests were released today. The United States is…
Christopher Beach writes at RealClearEducation about a refreshing approach from U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. State lawmakers around the country are pushing bold and ambitious education reform plans and Education…
The above statement comes from a Mathematica Policy Research assessment of Race to the Top (RTT), a federal grant program that awarded more than $4 billion dollars in grants to…
Guilford County Schools Superintendent Mo Green tells an NAACP-sponsored forum that tablets issued to middle schoolers aren’t making much of a difference: “I don’t see us using those limited resources…
The Washington Free Beacon details a summit this week in New Hampshire led by former television news anchor and now education activist Campbell Brown. Six Republican presidential candidates participated. At…
N&R follows up High Point Enterprise report that Amplify — supplier for Guilford County Schools —is getting out of the tablet business. Amplify officials declined to comment, but GCS chief…
High Point Enterprise —-citing a Bloomberg story- reports Amplify Education Inc., which provides Guilford County Schools with tablet computers, is getting out of the tablet business. School board member Linda…
Education Week provides an update on the status of federal Race to the Top grants in all states that received a grant, including North Carolina. The Race to the Top…
Compare the following articles from July 7, 2014: NEA wants Duncan’s resignation and Obama: Put better teachers in poor schools There are two ways to look at the policy implications…