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Results are in for the most reliable set of test scores Kentucky has had since the pandemic began. No surprise to educators: they’re low.

Two major educational events took place over the past week. First, last week the Kentucky Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the lawsuit seeking to block educational choice in Kentucky.

The data released Tuesday is from the 2021-22 academic year and includes results from state assessments administered to students across Kentucky in grades 3 through 8, and 10 and 11 last spring.

The 2022 results from the “main” National Assessment of Educational Progress will be released Oct. 24. If you’re feeling like the 2022 NAEP results just came out, you’re not wrong. The scores released around back-to-school time were from a special implementation of NAEP’s Long Term Trends version. That one looked only at 9-year-olds, tested a […]

In his 1999 State of the Union address, President Bill Clinton acknowledged a key flaw in the federal government's K-12 education policy--the lack of academic accountability:

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Budget Proposal Gives a Chance for School Choice

Why the no-accountability, government-run schools are being ditched.

Don Ford, a veteran Oklahoma educator who leads a rural schools network, initially thought state Superintendent Joy Hofmeister didn’t “understand the workings” of schools outside the state’s major cities. But then Hofmeister, a former teacher and onetime owner of a Tulsa tutoring company, put half a million miles on her car traveling throughout the state. […]

Advanced degrees in education do not improve teaching qualityrelative to English, Math, Science degrees.