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State Governments Reconsider Common Core
States begin to push back on Common Core not just with words, but with legislation. This is the Choice Media Ed Reform Minute for Tuesday, May 21. The notion of Common Core inevitability gets shakier still. To date, forty-six …
A Different Achievement Gap: Boys
Reprinted from the World-Herald Over a school lunch of spaghetti and meatballs earlier this spring, a group of fifth- and sixth-grade boys — and one girl who likes spy novels — discussed the ups and downs of youth author Jack …
The Myth of Michelle Rhee
Reprinted from Rebel 6 Ramblings We're seeing the unravelling of the myths that unwittingly placed Michelle Rhee in the national spotlight as "reformer in chief" for public education, myths created initially and largely at the expense of DC school children …
Are School Vouchers Losing Steam?
Reprinted from The Washington Post Vouchers have been at the center of the school choice movement for many reformers, but they may be in trouble. Here making that argument is Abby Rapoport of The American Prospect, where this appeared. By …
AP Courses vs. Dual Credit: What’s Best?
Reprinted from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Add up the credits for Advanced Placement and other college-level courses that Jaime Staengel took in high school, and the Rockwood Summit senior has quite a head start. She’ll probably begin her freshman year …
Poll: 57% Oppose Government Preschool
Reprinted from the Heartlander Government preschool programs have expanded greatly in the past decade, but a new poll finds 57 percent of Americans believe parents, not the government, should pay for preschool. Thirty-two percent said taxpayers should pay for preschool …
Two Ed Cases with Religious Connotations
Reprinted from Constitution Daily The Supreme Court will hear at least one of two potentially wide-ranging cases involving the separation of church and state in its next term, which starts in October 2013. The court said it will grant a …
41 Candidates for Single AK Board Seat
Reprinted from the Anchorage Daily News Forty-one people have applied for the vacant Anchorage School Board seat created by the resignation of board member Gretchen Guess, the school district announced Wednesday. The person appointed by the board will servce until …
Khan Academy Founder Returns Home
Reprinted from the Times-Picayune One of Sal Khan's sharpest memories from his student days at Phoebe Hearst Elementary School in Metairie was of being removed from regular class occasionally and put in a group of accelerated students. There, the teacher …
San Fran Kids Get College Savings Account
Reprinted from Governing Douglas Vasquez, dressed in a sweater vest and glasses, takes his 6-year-old daughter, Mia, by the hand and guides her inside their neighborhood Citibank. Mia is small enough to fit on the ledge of the cashier’s window …