Month: October 2021

EdStat: Nine of 24 States with D- to D+ Grades in 2009 Received A Grades for Their Proficiency Standards in 2017 – by Education Next

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For more than a decade, researchers at Education Next have graded state proficiency standards on an A–F scale. When the Common Core initiative began in 2009, not a single state had achieved, by today’s standards, an A for having a proficiency bar tightly aligned with NAEP. Since then, a number of states have made particularly dramatic improvements, and nine of 24 states with D...

Educational Freedom Isn’t a Threat to Democracy – by Corey DeAngelis

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Horace Mann – often called the father of traditional American public schooling – just celebrated his 222nd birthday. While Mann has been gone from this Earth for quite a long time, his thoughts on the intersection between common schools and democratic ideals continue to hold strong today. Because traditional public schools are supposed to teach children how to become proper Am...

Who Will Win? – by Education Next

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Each year we publish a list of the most popular entries on the Education Next blog. Which blogger will be at the top of the list this year? Pictured here are the winners for 2015 (Leslie Kan), 2013 (Jay Greene), and 2014 (Mike Petrilli). The winner for 2016 will be announced on Monday, December 19. – Education Next Source: EducationNext...