It's not that I don't appreciate the good parts or hate the bad parts. I'm not delighted to see social impact bonds tossed int...

Thursday evening NEA Government Relations Director Mary Kusler and Director of Education Policy and Practice Donna Harris-Aikensspoke on a b...

There's a huge amount of discussion about how the New ESEA will affect policy and the flow of money and the new ways that privateers can...

The new version of ESEA is called the Every Student Succeeds Act, which is a fine sine of the sort of aspirational nonsense that legislators...

I'll keep it brief. Candidate Clinton has indicated in talks with NEA president Lily Eskelsen Garcia that she will absolutely listen t...

Arne Duncan put in an appearance at the Education Writers' Association conference and allowed himself to be interviewed by Motoko Rich o...

. @SenAlexander : This is a tough subject to deal with. If it were easy, it woulda been done years ago. Thanks committee for improving bill...

The 50th anniversary of the passing of ESEA was an occasion for Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to speak about the bill. It was also the...

Over at the Hechinger Report, Jill Barshay has been crunching school funding numbers, and while her news is not really news for anyone who&...

As we come down to the first of many wires on the next of many rewrites of ESEA, Politico provides a nail-biting tale of House Republicans ...

Word on the street is that as soon as this coming Friday (February 27), the House of Representatives could be voting on H.R. 5- The Student ...

Policy memos, like white papers, reports and means for grown-ups to say, "Hey, here's what I think should happen," are often a...

Last week the National Governor's Association (NGA) released their idea of what the new ESEA should look like. The document is only six...

The first Senate hearing on the NCLB rewrite focused on testing and accountability. Discussion at and around the hearing has centered on que...

CAP has rushed to the defense of the reformy status quo and takes a moment to try to school Lamar Alexander with the pearl-clutching headlin...

(Well, one of them. I've sent several.) I am concerned first of all with the speed with which this is being done. The pattern of the l...

I opened my eyes while you were kissing me once more than once And you looked as sincere as a dog Just as sincere as a dog does when it’s ...

You've been kind enough to drop me an email about your position on testing in the might-be-new ESEA, so I wanted to share my reaction wi...

If test-based accountability were going to be a great boon to public education, wouldn't we know it by now? We've been doing this ...

This week the Big Noise About NCLB kicks off in DC with a hearing on Wednesday, Jan 21 entitled "Fixing No Child Left Behind: Testing a...