Lindsey Burke is the director of the Center for Education Policy and the Mark A. Kolokotrones Fellow in Education at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research.
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Good government should always take account of human nature: one aspect of human nature is that you are more careful about conserving resources when you… Read More
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“It’s like Christmas Day,” exclaimed Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union. García was referring to passage of… Read More
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The 1,061 pages of the Every Student Succeeds Act, which would reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (currently known as No Child Left Behind)… Read More
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Monday morning, Congress released a proposed reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, currently known as No Child Left Behind. The proposal, known as… Read More
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There isn’t much for conservatives to love in the policies put forward in the proposed rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization currently… Read More
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House and Senate proposals to rewrite No Child Left Behind are set to head into conference early next week, and details about an agreement struck… Read More
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“Dismal.” “A train wreck.” That’s how people have characterized the results of this year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress. The NAEP assesses fourth and eighth-graders’… Read More
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New results are in from the test known as the “report card” for the nation’s schools, and they’re not good. The U.S. Department of Education… Read More
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From the administration that brought you Common Core national standards and tests comes the news that the White House and Department of Education now are… Read More
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“[F]or every young person willing to work hard, I want two years of community college to be as free and universal as high school is… Read More
