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The Answer Sheet: No Child Left Behind’s Test-Based Policies Failed. Will Congress Keep Them Anyway?

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and William J. Mathis

February 16, 2015

The Becoming Radical: What are Evidence-Based Practices and Policies in Education?

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P.L. Thomas

February 13, 2015

VAMboozled: Educator Evaluations (and the Use of VAM) Unlikely to be Mandated in Reauthorization of ESEA (by Kimberly Kappler Hewitt)

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Kimberly Kappler Hewitt and Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

February 12, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Principal: What I’ve Learned About Annual Standardized Testing

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

February 5, 2015

Crazy Crawfish’s Blog: Background on the High Stakes Testing Opt Out Movement in Louisiana

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Crazy Crawfish

January 30, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Senator Warren Clarifies the Money Matter in Revising NCLB

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Jeff Bryant

January 30, 2015

Janresseger: No Child Left Behind Has Not Worked. Why?

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Jan Resseger

January 26, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Why the Test Debate is About Politics, Not Education

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Jeff Bryant

January 21, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Principal to Congress: I Was Wrong When I Supported NCLB. Learn From My Mistake

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

January 20, 2015

Janresseger: NCLB Reauthorization Debate Focuses on Role of Testing, Ignores Expanding Opportunity

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Jan Resseger

January 16, 2015

Deborah Meier on Education: Data and More Data

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Deborah Meier

January 16, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: What Education Policy Do Civil Rights Groups Want?

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Diane Ravitch

January 14, 2015

Sam Chaltain: Has Testing Reached a Tipping Point? (Part Deux)

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Sam Chaltain

January 12, 2015

Kevin K. Kumashiro

Campaign for America’s Future: An Education New Year’s Resolution We Can All Believe In

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Jeff Bryant

January 9, 2015

Living in Dialogue: Pillars of Reform Collapsing, Reformers Contemplate Defeat

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Anthony Cody

December 18, 2014

Huffington Post: A Path Beyond the Opt-Out Movement

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Kevin G. Welner

November 24, 2014

The Becoming Radical: Education Accountability as Disaster Bureaucracy

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P.L. Thomas

November 18, 2014

Cloaking Inequity: Civil Rights Organizations to @BarackObama: NCLB has “Narrow Measures” and Discouraged “Rich Curriculum”

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

October 29, 2014

Cloaking Inequity: Testing and Accountability: The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

October 10, 2014

Education Law Prof Blog: Another Common Core Lawsuit, But This One Raises Unique Claims

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Derek W. Black

September 24, 2014

Campaign for America's Future: What’s the Matter with Kansas Education Policy?

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Jeff Bryant

September 22, 2014

Yong Zhao: Fatal Attraction: America’s Suicidal Quest for Educational Excellence

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Yong Zhao

September 15, 2014

Shanker Blog: The Fatal Flaw of Education Reform

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Matthew Di Carlo

September 11, 2014

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: An Illinois Superintendent Writes about What Matters Most

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Diane Ravitch

September 10, 2014

Crazy Crawfish’s Blog: Why Do I Think Bobby Jindal is Scamming Us with Faux Common Core Lawsuits?

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Crazy Crawfish

September 8, 2014

Derek W. Black

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Cody and Greene Dissect Duncan’s Critique of His Own Policies

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Diane Ravitch

August 22, 2014

Susan Ohanian.org: Vermont’s Heroic Response Shows the Way on No Child Left Behind Letters

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Susan Ohanian

August 21, 2014

At the Chalk Face: Does Jindal Have a Case with Common Core as Federal “Scheme”?

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Mercedes Schneider

August 13, 2014

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Rebecca Holcombe, a Hero of American Education

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Diane Ravitch

August 7, 2014

The Art of Teaching Science: Are the Deep Pockets of Gates, Walton, and Broad Contrary to the Ideals of Education in a Democracy?

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Jack Hassard

June 5, 2014

The Art of Teaching Science: Should Parents REFUSE to Allow Their Children to be Given the Georgia CRCT Test?

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Jack Hassard

April 28, 2014

The Art of Teaching Science: Why High-Stakes Tests Should Not Be Used to Measure Student or School Performance

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Jack Hassard

April 22, 2014

EduSanity: Why We Chose To Opt Out

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Jason Endacott

April 15, 2014

For the Love of Learning: Bill Moyers Interviews Diane Ravitch

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Joe Bower

April 9, 2014

At the Chalk Face: What to Expect When Your State is Being Run Amok

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Kris Nielsen

March 25, 2014

At the Chalk Face The Conversation: Moving ‘Quality’ Teachers Between Schools Will Not Help Disadvantaged Children

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P.L. Thomas

March 5, 2014

Campaign for America's Future: The Education Spring’s ‘Year of Action’ Revs Up

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Jeff Bryant

February 27, 2014

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: A Veteran Principal Eloquently Denounces Common Core and Race to the Top

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Diane Ravitch

January 30, 2014

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