Achievement gaps forever?
Back before the 2019 release of the “Nation’s Report Card,” I predicted that somewhere out there in the four tests...
Read More >NAEP reveals students starting with the least suffered the most in COVID-19 shutdowns
NAEP released 2022 national Long-Term Trend data on reading and mathematics this morning, revealing the academic impact of the COVID-19...
Read More >NAEP 2022: The final insult of state school rating systems?
The National Assessment of Educational Progress will soon release 2022 national long-term trend results followed by state level results later...
Read More >Honey, we shrunk the schools!
In the fall of 2019, American public-school enrollment stood at 50,796,445 students, as it turned out, a peak likely not...
Read More >The science of reading
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Dale Chu provided an excellent summary of the reading controversies in the pages of the...
Read More >Teacher reKruiting krisis
In the classic Krisis at Kamp Krusty episode of “The Simpsons,” Bart discovers that the summer camp he and Lisa...
Read More >The sun sets on the Empire State
Geography lies at the heart of New York’s success almost as much as it does for the United States as...
Read More >The time has come to relieve teachers of bureaucracy
Eddie Murphy’s stand-up comedy television special “Delirious” includes a bit in which he ridicules characters in horror movies that stay...
Read More >Save the humans!
Humans nearly drove whales to extinction, but the whales, by happy accident, were saved by American Cold Warriors and a...
Read More >How biased is your state’s charter law against rural students?
Variety is the spice of life, and policymakers created charter schools to inject a bit of pluralism into the K-12...
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