ESEA Reauthorization Coasts Through House; Next Stop: U.S. Senate PK12: The House on Wednesday voted 359 to 64 to approve the Every Student Succeeds Act, which would scale back the federal role in education for the first time...
Read MoreRight before Thanksgiving, I wrote NYT’s Mass. Testing Story Contradicted By Other Outlets, pointing out that the Times story appeared to overstate what was happening substantively and perhaps even symbolically in MA. There are...
Read MoreHouse to Vote on No Child Left Behind Rewrite AP: House members are expected to vote on a bill Wednesday, followed by a Senate vote next week.The bill would continue the requirement for annual testing of children in grades 3...
Read MoreI’m on the road today — apologies for the lack of new blog posts. Here’s something from last year you might not have seen that is still pretty timely: Think Tanks Bypassing Media: In case you hadn’t...
Read MoreOnly A Quarter Of D.C. Students Ready For College And Career, Per New Test WAMU: A quarter of all third- to eighth-graders in D.C. public and charter schools are considered “on track” for college or a career, according to the...
Read MoreRecent NJTV interview above. Sara Neufeld has been in and (briefly) out of education journalism for a while now, but all of sudden this fall it seems like she’s everywhere. The book version of her Newark school reporting came...
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