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competency-based education

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Lawmakers Still Pushing “Personalized Learning” Despite Huge Problems

  • April 30, 2019
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
The corporate technology push of machine-based skills training continues to march across the nation. This effort goes by the names such as “competency-based education” (CBE), “personalized learning,” and “mastery education.”…
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No More Grades? New Program Looks to Recycle Failed Ideas at U.S. High Schools

  • December 18, 2018
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
A consortium of the most elite high schools in the nation are attempting to build a new kind of computerized high school transcript that will embody more than what they…
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DeVos’ Swiss Agreement Overlooks Deep Problems with School-to-Work Model

  • December 12, 2018
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, along with the Secretaries of Labor and Commerce, recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Swiss government to collaborate in the area of…
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Congress Explodes Deficits, Expands Nanny State with Disastrous Omnibus Bill

  • March 23, 2018
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
Tragically for our children’s futures and freedoms — but predictably, as we warned here and here — Congress heeded very few general principles or President Trump’s good ideas about preserving freedom and…
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Betsy DeVos Just Delivered a Promising Speech. Will Her Actions Back It Up?

  • January 23, 2018
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos gave an interesting speech to the American Enterprise Institute last week. In some parts, it contained rhetoric that skeptical conservatives have been waiting to hear.…
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Debunking 5 False Claims About “Social Emotional Learning”

  • January 15, 2018
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
The National Commission on Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (SEL) that we have discussed and warned about had a major gathering in Tacoma, Wash., this past November and sent out…
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Looking Ahead: 4 Predictions for Education Policy in 2018

  • January 5, 2018
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
Happy New Year! Here is a brief update on federal education issues we were following before Christmas and some predictions as 2018 begins. As always, the contrast between policies that…
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Will Congress Spend Big on This Failed Education Program in 2018?

  • December 28, 2017
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
The corporations, foundations, investors, and politicians funded by them have been working hard this year to promote competency-based education (CBE), also called personalized learning, as well as its evil sibling,…
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Insanity: After Repeated Failures, Bill Gates to Spend $1.7 Billion More on Education

  • October 23, 2017
  • Karen R. Effrem, MD
One commonly used definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Bill Gates, the billionaire education philanthropist, has spent hundreds of millions of…
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Betsy DeVos’ Latest Speech Should Keep Conservatives on Edge

  • May 23, 2017
  • Jane Robbins
Conservatives have been waiting for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to unveil how much federal muscle she’ll exercise to push school choice. In a speech Monday before the American Federation for…
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