News & Issues

Citing questions over the cost and problems with test questions, David R Craig, county executive for Harford County, Md., says the state should withdraw from participation in a multistate testing consortium.

We continue our response to objections of the Common Core, bouncing off a blog post by Anthony Cody in Education Week.

The reading scores on Maryland's NAEP test may have been inflated by a few points, but really, what does that have to do with education? Very little.

Despite my claim that both sides of the Common Core debate have build barriers to communication, some people are engaging in debate. But it's not as good as it needs to be.

A longstanding difference in educational attainment between rural and metro communities brings the Common Core to the rescue, or so some residents on Maryland's Lower Shore hope.

Illinois and New York are the only clients remaining for the inBloom database, which will track student test scores, demographics, and personal likes and dislikes.

We wonder why people or organizations reduce a complex problem like education to a single letter grade. We wonder if there aren't better things we could do with our money.

California wrestles with the notion of not giving students a test that has been made obsolete by the state's adoption of the Common Core. And the feds say they'll withhold certain funding.

It was surprising that Gov Quinn of Illinois selected as his running mate Paul Vallas, former Chicago schools CEO, and the leader of school districts in New Orleans, Philly, and Bridgeport, Conn.