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The nation’s largest civil rights organization steps up its opposition to charter schools just as a president and new education secretary appear ready to kick the sector into high gear. This article appeared here at Phi Delta Kappan. by Joan Richardson...

The Religious Narrow Mindedness of the Left 2015 will undoubtedly go down as the year the Left’s efforts to impose its absolutist ideology went well beyond targeting lecturers and graduation speakers invited to colleges. In late spring, the University...

Summary Traits and skills such as critical thinking, creativity, problem solving, persistence, and self-control—which are often collectively called noncognitive skills, or social and emotional skills—are vitally important to children’s full development...

By Charlotte Iserbyt Former Assistant Secretary of Education to President Reagan H. Rowan Gaither “Most of us here were, at one time or another, active in either the O.S.S., the State Department, or the European Economic Administration. During those...

(This is the third post in a four-part series about Common Core. PART ONE/PART TWO.) In the last two posts, we’ve talked about the potential benefits and pitfalls of the Common Core standards when it comes to the quality of children’s education. But...