By John Thompson. Most of the chapters in Learning from the Federal Market-based Reforms: Lessons for the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), edited by William Mathis and Tina Trujillo, place the last 15 years of test-driven, competition-driven reforms in the context of the previous decade and a half. For …
By Anthony Cody. The candidates for the Democratic nomination for president have not been as specific about their education policies as some of us would like. But we can look back at past statements to get a picture of the shape those policies may take. Last year Hillary Clinton spoke of the Common Core tests as …
By Monty Neill and Lisa Guisbond. The draft rewrite of No Child Left Behind that the Senate education committee will debate on April 14 – “Every Child Achieves” (link here) – fails to reduce the law’s deeply destructive annual testing mandate. It keeps the requirement to test every child in every year …
By John Thompson Did you hear the one about “Voo Doo Economics?” President Ronald Reagan said that his “Supply Side Economics” would cut taxes, increase spending, and reduce the deficit!?!? If a 22nd century historian were to uncover Reagan’s claim, and yet discover that all of the physical and digital …
By Anthony Cody. I first heard of Doug Christensen back in 2008, when he was still serving as Commissioner of Education in Nebraska. He was forced to resign because the locally-based assessment system he had developed there did not meet the mandates of No Child Left Behind — as described in this interview …
