Has the pendulum swung too far away from college for all?
Also, state assessments, Plyler, Head Start, and federal tax credit dollars for public schools
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Scrap world language requirements? Mon Dieu!
Plus, the Classic Learning Test comes under fire, James Traub lauds Texas’s reading list, and the discipline debate returns.
U.S. high schools should stop pretending to teach foreign languages
Plus, new debates on accountability, career pathways, school start times, and more.
Should later school start times be an ed reform priority?
Plus, John McWhorter and Kelsey Piper defend standardized testing and gifted education, and Michelle Rhee returns to defend D.C.’s IMPACT system.
Are Chromebook carts the answer?
Plus, a debate about through-year assessments, and praise for Virginia and Texas.
Let’s debate LA’s screen time policy
Also, the conversation Ross Wiener kicked off concludes, including with a response from Ross himself.
The one where Ross gets rebuked by reformers
Also, a deep dive on who should go to college and some blue-state love for the Senate’s READ act
Is the Senate’s READ Act a Reading First redux?
Also, Ross Wiener’s delusional take on NCLB, Maya Martin Cadogan tells us to relax about Janeese Lewis George, and Indiana’s waiver is worse than I thought.
7 thoughts about Indiana’s waiver
Also, ED’s dismembering continues, reformers are attacked from left and right, and more on the OMB regulations.
The NAEP news is better than you think
Plus, reading the Treasury Department tea leaves on the Education Freedom Tax Credit