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Wrestling with Policy Dilemmas: DC IMPACT

Rick Hess is one of education policy’s most original thinkers. But, every once in a while, perhaps after too long a lunch in AEI’s dining room, he veers chaotically off-course, venturing into...

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Wrestling with Policy Dilemmas: Common Core Assessments

While it’s easy to pick at flaws or cast doubt on policy ideas, meaningful change almost always requires the navigation of thorny dilemmas. Last week I touched on the dilemmas in the DC IMPACT teacher...

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Off Message

Speech by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, September 2, 2010: I am convinced that this new generation of state assessments will be an absolute game-changer in public education. Experts See Hurdles...

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Standardized Testing’s Foreign Aid Problem

Spend any time listening to talk radio and you’ll hear countless stories about “billions wasted” on foreign aid. Politicians seizing on painless ways to cut the deficit reinforce this perception of...

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How We Calculated State Testing Costs

My Education Week “Truth About Testing Costs” commentary outlines why the rhetoric about the high budgetary costs of testing is not only overblown, but in many ways counter-productive, because it...

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The Country’s Most Ambitious Digital Learning Project

Educators from coast-to-coast will celebrate the nation’s first Digital Learning Day on Wednesday. Amidst the cool technology demonstrations, shiny gadgets, and debates about online learning, it’s...

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