Leo Doran
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New York City Slowly Closing Persistent Charter School Funding Inequities –
Public charter school funding, measured on a per-pupil basis, still lagged behind allotments for traditional public schools in New York City as of 2014, ac → Read More
Chronic Absence Rates Increasingly In Focus for Educators –
Changing education policy and new research are leading to a major push in emphasis on the reduction of rates of chronic absence in American public schools. → Read More
What's Wrong With Music Education and Why It Matters –
For years parents, students, and teachers have complained that the arts in general, and music education specifically, have suffered from a lack of attentio → Read More
Public Unsympathetic to Opt Out Movement, According to Polls –
A majority of Americans oppose the opt-out movement according to two separate polls released this month. In education, opting out refers to a relatively ne → Read More
The Indiana Case Study: Does Education Benefit From Competition? –
Indianapolis, Ind. -- After more than a decade of uninterrupted GOP rule in Indiana, the Hoosier State’s education system has been remade according to the → Read More
Independents Shocked Alaska Politics. Now They Must Govern. –
Just as Governor Bill Walker, I-Alaska, was capping off a surprisingly strong campaign with a victory in 2014, his state was slipping into a worst-case fin → Read More
Ed. Department Official Lifts Curtain on ESSA Plan Feedback Process –
How strict should the federal Department of Education be when reviewing state accountability plans under the sweeping new education law that replaced No Ch → Read More
"People Will Cheat"—Test Proctoring in a Digital Age –
Education is increasingly a buyer's market, according to Michael London, the CEO of Examity, a remote test proctoring service. To compete for admissions, s → Read More
Education Advocates, Ed Dept. Take Close Look at ESSA Plans –
Education policy experts unveiled a new website Tuesday that evaluates the quality of submitted state educational accountability plans. The state plans, wh → Read More
How Liberal Politics and Teachers' Unions Got So Entangled –
Millions of liberal and conservative parents around the country send their children to public schools every day. But the politics of the organizations that → Read More
What Educators Can Learn From Learning Science –
Despite a vibrant exchange of ideas and research in the field of learning science, some education experts are concerned that commonly used practice is lagg → Read More
Boston Public Schools Adopt New World Map –
Massachusetts’ largest public school system opened a new front in a long running cartographical battle by switching from one commonly-used world map to ano → Read More
STEM Education Starts in Early Childhood, Researchers Say –
Planting a garden, building a tower from blocks, or even just talking through math concepts with a child can have a profoundly positive impact on the forma → Read More
What Is Standing in the Way of FAFSA Simplification? –
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, currently weighs in at over 100 questions and is so daunting that hundreds of thousands of students → Read More
New York’s Changes to Common Core: Substantive or Cosmetic? –
New York State’s top educators took another step this month in a multi-year process to alter the controversial math and English Common Core standards that → Read More
American Education by the Numbers –
While college completion rates may be up, test scores in American schools are not, according to a major annual federal report released today that takes a c → Read More
Do Teacher Pensions Need Reform? –
In many states, the pension systems for K-12 educators create perverse incentives, fail to boost retention rates, and are unfair to younger teachers, accor → Read More
How Science Standards Went Mainstream Without Common Core’s Drama –
Even as the political blowback against the rapid adoption of the Common Core math and English language competency benchmarks during the Obama administratio → Read More
Grant Oversight Lacking at Education Department, Says GAO Report –
A sampling of U.S. Department of Education discretionary grant files discovered that the federal agency failed in dozens of cases to follow its own oversig → Read More
“The American People Are Ready for a Win,” Says Lawmaker Pushing CTE Bill –
Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., has made Career and Technical Education, or CTE, one of his top issues during a nearly ten-year tenure in the U.S. House o → Read More