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EdCast Launches Twitter-Like ‘Knowledge Network’

quoting William J. Perryvia India West
Thursday, June 18, 2015

A new knowledge network, EdCasting, which aims to link knowledge influencers to two billion people worldwide, was launched May 30 at Stanford University, during the Future Learning 2020 summit.

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No Exit, No Voice: The Design Of Common Core

by Williamson M. Eversvia Heritage Foundation
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

One of the most influential and most cited books in social science in the past 50 years is economist Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. Hirschman’s book discusses how individuals respond to a situation in which the services on which they rely are deteriorating. As such, Exit provides valuable conceptual tools for analyzing the design of the Common Core national curriculum content standards.

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Nevada Places A Bet On School Choice

by Clint Bolickvia Wall Street Journal
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Education savings accounts are available to all of the state’s 385,000 public-school students.

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Troubled Ohio Charter Schools Have Become A Joke — Literally

quoting Margaret (Macke) Raymondvia Washington Post
Friday, June 12, 2015

Yes, some charter schools are great, but others are a mess - especially in Ohio, where academic results across the sector are far worse than in traditional public schools and financial and ethical scandals are more than common.

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How Jeb Bush’s Education Record Will Change The 2016 Republican Primary

quoting Michael J. Petrillivia NPR
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Education has been a signature issue for Bush. He helped start Florida’s first charter school. He says schools and teachers should be judged on student performance. He pushed for vouchers for private schools.

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The New TNTP: A Conversation With CEO Daniel Weisberg

with Michael J. Petrillivia Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Hoover Institution fellow Michael J. Petrilli interview's new TNTP CEO Daniel Weisberg about the future of the institution.

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Want More College Graduates? Improve Our K–12 System

by Michael J. Petrillivia Flypaper (Fordham Education Blog)
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Regular Flypaper readers know that I’ve been skeptical of the “college for all” movement, but I’m 200 percent behind the “college for more” movement. Among other reasons, that’s because completing college brings a strong economic payoff, particularly for young people growing up in poverty.

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Are Universities To Blame?

quoting Peter Berkowitzvia Washington Post
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

In an engrossing interview with Bill Kristol, the conservative scholar, author and former Harvard professor Peter Berkowitz paints a dismal picture of our universities.

Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform by Herbert J. Walberg
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Peter Berkowitz On The John Batchelor Show (29:34)

interview with Peter Berkowitzvia The John Batchelor Show
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Hoover Institution fellow Peter Berkowitz gives his thoughts on how schools are not doing a good job teaching world and civic history. 

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Progressive Academics Shocked That Their Creatures Turn On Them

by Bruce Thorntonvia Front Page Magazine Online
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Recently several progressive professors have publicly complained that their students are hounding them for failing to consider their tender sensibilities by straying beyond the p.c. orthodoxy on sexual assault, sex identity, linguistic correctness, and a whole host of other progressive shibboleths.

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K-12 Education Task Force

 
The K–12 Education Task Force focuses on education policy as it relates to government provision and oversight versus private solutions (both within and outside the public school system) that stress choice, accountability, and transparency.

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