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Losing The Ability To Compare Academic Performance Across States

by Chester E. Finn Jr., Robert Pondisciovia EducationNext
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Our friend and colleague Mike Petrilli is right about many things, but he’s wrong to dismiss solid interstate comparisons of academic performance as a “nice to have,” not a “must-have.” 

Analysis and Commentary

America's Best (And Worst) Cities For School Choice

by Amber M. Northern, Michael J. Petrillivia Flypaper (Fordham Education Blog)
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

We’ve learned a few lessons about school choice over the past few decades. Key among those lessons are that quantity does not equal quality and that conditions must be right for choice to flourish. Good intentions only take you so far; sturdy plants grow when seeds are planted in fertile ground.

Analysis and Commentary

How Woodrow Wilson Denied African-Americans An Academic Education

by Williamson M. Eversvia Education Week
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Princeton University protesters against Woodrow Wilson captured headlines in mid-November. When he was the president of Princeton, Wilson expressed his pride that no African-American students had been admitted during his tenure.

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Hoover IP2 Announces 2016 Summer Teaching Institute

Thursday, December 10, 2015
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Stephen Haber, director of the Hoover Institution Working Group on Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Prosperity (Hoover IP2), has announced that the two-week Hoover IP2 Summer Teaching Institute on the Economics and Politics of Regulation will take place from July 31 through August 12, 2016.

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America’s Best (And Worst) Cities For School Choice

quoting Michael J. Petrillivia Education Gadfly (Thomas B. Fordham Institute)
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

This report focuses once again on one of Fordham’s core issues—school choice. And it’s one that we’ve learned quite a bit about over the last decades. Key among those lessons? Quantity does not equal quality. Plus: The conditions must be right for choice to flourish. Good intentions only take you so far; sturdy plants grow when seeds are planted in fertile ground.

In the News

A Plan To Restore Free Speech On Campus

quoting Peter Berkowitzvia National Review
Monday, December 7, 2015

The slowly metastasizing assault on free speech that has played out on American college campuses since the 1960s has reached a crisis point. What’s needed is a concrete plan to restore liberty of thought and discussion to the American academy — a plan capable of focusing the support of sympathetic students, faculty, parents, alumni, administrators, trustees, and citizens, and their elected representatives.

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Looking For A College With Political Diversity? Here's A Few Options And Ones To Avoid

quoting Harvey C. Mansfield, Thomas Sowellvia Christian Post
Saturday, December 5, 2015

Universities and colleges often make rapt headlines for political radicalism, but a diverse, well-rounded higher education may be more available than you think.

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The College Readiness Illusion – A Reply To Mike Petrilli

by Ze’ev Wurman, Williamson M. Eversmentioning Michael J. Petrillivia Breitbart.com
Friday, December 4, 2015

In a recent piece on his web site Mike Petrilli, the president of the Fordham Institute, makes a rather strange case arguing that Common Core is alive (and well?).

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America’s Mediocre Test Scores

by Michael J. Petrilli, Brandon L. Wright via Education Next
Friday, December 4, 2015

At a time when the national conversation is focused on lagging upward mobility, it is no surprise that many educators point to poverty as the explanation for mediocre test scores among U.S. students compared to those of students in other countries.

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Mavuto Kalulu: Lower The Screen

quoting Eric Hanushekvia Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Thursday, December 3, 2015

The 2015 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) scores were recently released and the results are dismal for the nation as a whole. The results are even worse for Arkansas, which scored below the national average in both fourth- and eighth-grade mathematics and reading. Who will shoulder most of the blame for this poor performance?

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