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Parent Power in Colorado: Aiming to Join or Surpass the Dazzling Dozen 0
- April 10, 2013
Has it really been more than six whole months since the Hollywood movie Won’t Back Down hit the Denver and national scene. While not a blockbuster success, the parent power-themed, feature-length film certainly raised the profile of K-12 education reform. Two moms took charge and took on the bureaucracy and union opposition to change the […]
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Here’s Hoping for a Real Common Core Debate… and Some Real School Choice 0
- April 8, 2013
More than two-and-a-half years ago, the Colorado State Board of Education adopted the Common Core standards. Just this last December the State Board took another careful look at the decision, as this School Reform News article by my Education Policy Center friend notes. For a number of reasons, the issue has gained greater national notoriety […]
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Let’s Not Allow Test Cheating Scandals to Lead to Faulty Conclusions 0
- April 4, 2013
Let’s go over it again: Standardized tests are far from the be-all and end-all of education. But if we’re not going to put money in student backpacks and make schools directly accountable to parents, how can such assessments NOT be used as a key component of measuring student progress, teacher effectiveness, and school quality? If […]
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Well, Teachers Union Leaders Could Use a New Argument Against School Choice 0
- April 3, 2013
Take your hats off to those teachers union officials, they sure know how to plan ahead sometimes. The Education Intelligence Agency’s Mike Antonucci brings our attention to a PBS Newshour clip in which NEA president Dennis Van Roekel tried to respond to a question about why private educational choice works at the college level but […]
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Split Partisan SB 213 Vote Shifts Debate from Real Reform to Raising Taxes 0
- April 2, 2013
In case you haven’t been following me on Twitter (which raises the question: Why not?), you may not have noticed that the big education bill of the 2013 Colorado legislative session has made its way through the State Senate. As a new Ed News Colorado story by Todd Engdahl highlights, Senate Bill 213 has advanced […]
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Change of Heart on Choice, Reform, Funding, and Unions: Time for Ed Is Playing!!0
- April 1, 2013
It’s been several days since I’ve had a chance to write here. The end of my spring break provided a lot of time for reflection on some issues that really have been bothering me. Now that I’ve had time to re-evaluate my well-known positions on some key education issues, I feel it is my obligation […]
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