Today we reach into the "way back machine" and bring you news about K-12 education from..1995. That's right. There was an outline of how to improve education in 1995 from someone well known that is still valid today...24 years later. This article comes to us from Intellectual Takeout and Annie Holmquist. Since Donald Trump got into office and appointed school choice supporter Betsy DeVos as the national education secretary, a good deal of ink has been spilled on the issue of school vouchers. On the one hand, vouchers seem to promise a better choice and education for students at a lower cost. On the other hand, recent studies suggest that vouchers don’t improve reading and math scores, … [Read more...]
Republicans and the lost promise of local control in education
I am a conservative. In the past that meant I was a member of the Republican party because I thought they did a better job of supporting conservative principles and policies. When it comes to K-12 education my hope was that Trump would move to get rid of the US Department of Education, Common Core and the SBAC/PARCC testing. The ESSA is just as bad as NCLB (No Child Left Behind). The race to gather data on children and sell that to companies continues unabated. In this article from The Hill (authors are Emmett McGroarty and Jane Robbins) we get a dose of reality.... When the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was enacted in 2015 to replace the hated No Child Left Behind law, the … [Read more...]