A measure of long-term trends in the assessment of 13-year-olds’ reading and math achievement has revealed a statistically significant drop in scores over the past eight years, another outcome that points to the failure of the Common Core State Standards.
A new study published at the Boston-based Pioneer Institute points to the significant increase in families who are now regularly homeschooling as a sign the education option is now a “viable” choice.
Harvard law professor Elizabeth Bartholet doubled down on her attacks against homeschooling parents, underscoring her view that they are primarily “right-wing Christian conservatives” who may be abusing their children.
A study reveals a historic drop in U.S. student reading and math scores since the adoption of the Common Core standards more than a decade ago.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick promoted Common Core in 2010, leading to his state’s fall as a model in education for the nation.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) used Twitter on Sunday to pander to teachers’ unions and the #RedforEd movement in advance of next week’s debates between 20 candidates vying for the 2020 Democrat nomination for president.
A new study released Monday finds the most popular education topic today is social and emotional learning (SEL), which amounts to the “psychological training of children starting at a young age.”
In an amicus curiae brief filed by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute’s public interest law arm, PioneerLegal argued the First Amendment “precludes coercing non-union public employees into financially supporting speech preferred by unions.”
An author of a study that examined the effects of the Common Core State Standards on school choice says the Obama-era K-12 school reform is the “worst large-scale educational failure in 40 years.”
Massachusetts students were first in the nation in reading and math performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam – until the state adopted the Common Core standards in 2010 and then updated the same standards this year.
U.S. Education Department (USED) Secretary Betsy DeVos made her first official announcement of senior staff hires Wednesday.
The executive director and the senior fellow at Boston-based think tank Pioneer Institute warn Trump federal Education Department pick Betsy DeVos “to understand that the best school innovation comes from states, localities, and parents,” not the federal government.
The K-12 Common Core’s focus on workforce development is at odds with the mission of Catholic schools and should be abandoned by their dioceses, says the study.
School choice supporters are urging the relocation of a portrait of Massachusetts nativist “Know-Nothing” Party Gov. Henry Gardner from its place of prominence in the State House. As their reason, they cite bigotry inherent in two amendments to the state’s Constitution based on his Party’s anti-Catholic sentiment in the mid-nineteenth century.
Two reports from the Massachusetts-based Pioneer Institute show that teaching character education in schools results not only in academic progress and decreases in behavioral problems, but also greater self-control and self-discipline in students.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump says that, if elected, he would close the loopholes in the federal privacy law to ensure that students’ personal information remained private.
