U.S. Department of Education Archives

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USED Remains Hopelessly Committed to Standardized Testing

Leaping from triumph to triumph, the U.S. Department of Education (USED) has announced a new assessments grant program to follow its failed assessments grant program from six years ago. Ed…

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This Supreme Court Case Just Raised the Stakes for Trump vs. Hillary

In May, President Obama’s Department of Education (USED) sent out a decree to public schools across the United States requiring that biological boys and girls be allowed to use the bathrooms, showers,…

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Common Core’s National Curriculum Has Arrived

In May 2014, conservative columnist George Will warned that Common Core represented the “thin edge of an enormous wedge” and that “sooner or later you inevitably have a national curriculum.”…

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Local and State Officials “Just Say No” to the Department of Education

Piercing the gloom of the current educational and political landscape are a few glimmers of hope. One promising development is that some state and local education officials are now openly…

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The Left Wants All of Your Personal Data. Yes, All of It.

The far-left Center for American Progress (CAP) recently sounded another volley in the campaign to collect and share enormous amounts of personal data on American students. CAP argues the federal…

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How Obama Is Driving Our Schools Into Chaos

In the movie The Dark Knight, which this author didn’t see but was alerted to by the perceptive Benham Brothers, there apparently is a scene in which Batman and the…

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The Dark Side of Student Data Mining

Janice Gobert’s recent op-ed in US News & World Report is another classic example of the huge disconnect between parents and the big government and corporate education-technology “Big Data” machine. Big Data…

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Government-Sponsored “Research” Putting Children’s Privacy At Risk

Much has been written about the dangers of the proposed Strengthening Education Through Research Act (SETRA), especially the bill’s extension of student data-collection to socioemotional data. But parents should realize the…

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Clinton Doubles Down on Common Core, Faults “Roll-Out” for Problems

Although the progressive education establishment (which includes Republicans such as Sen. Lamar Alexander) insists that the Common Core issue is fading and won’t affect the election, the question of the…

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Trump Lists Education Among Top Three Roles of Federal Government

Businessman Donald Trump has gained an incredibly loyal following attracted to his putative outsider status. Significant numbers of education activists are happy, because he has frequently said, “Common Core is a…

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Cruz Renews Promise to End Common Core at CNN Town Hall

Ted Cruz has been one of the most outspoken candidates this campaign when it comes to his opposition to Common Core and disdain for federal overreach in education policy. So…

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GOP Debate Recap: A Major Missed Opportunity for Candidates on Common Core

As to the discussion of education in last night’s debate, John Kasich demonstrated why he is in last place. For their parts, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump could have hit…

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Where Does Donald Trump Truly Stand on Education? We Don’t Know

Yes, it’s true that real estate mogul Donald Trump has spoken against Common Core, but it has almost always been in the context of taking a jab at Jeb Bush.…

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This School Software Could Put Students’ Privacy At Risk

Most public-school parents have heard glowing claims that “digital” or “personalized” learning will transform education, but they may not understand exactly what this means. The Georgia Senate Education and Youth…

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Big Brother Wants to Be “Engaged” with Your Family. Here’s How . . .

As the pro-Common Core Republican candidates get winnowed out, the remaining combatants should be quizzed in greater detail about federal education policy — particularly, the many troubling provisions of the…

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Cruz in N.H.: Abolish Common Core, Dept. of Education

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz told a crowd in New Hampshire he would return power over education to the states by eliminating Common Core and abolishing the U.S. Department of Education.…

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