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People these days worry about the rising prices of gasoline and milk, but there’s another destructive inflation that has gone unchecked for years: grade inflation. Just like monetary inflation, which makes your bank account look great until you’re rudely awakened by the reality that you can’t buy as much as you used to, grade inflation makes your transcript look great, until you discover that you haven’t learned as much as you thought. And though grade inflation is not new, its recent in...

Inflated grades and lowered standards, often in the name of “equity,” are destroying educational excellence from kindergarten through college.

Funding to train teachers and build school districts' capacity to provide high-quality instruction in math and science is a priority in Gov. Gavin Newsom's budget, but not in the Legislature's. The governor is right.

The 2019 data release from the National Assessment of Educational Progress didn’t offer news of much progress.  The test, administered in schools biannually since 1969, had shown only lackluster academic growth in most states for over a decade. The latest scores suggested more of the same, with meaningful declines in fourth- and eighth-grade English. Peggy […]

Nessel makes foolish comments while Michigan's school crisis deepens

The free, six-week summer literacy and cultural enrichment initiative serves children in communities without quality academic enrichment programming.

The first draft of new math standards for Nebraska schools is a tweak, not an overhaul, of existing ones, according to state education officials.

This week on High Noon: the indefatigable Ian Rowe, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and visiting fellow with the Woodson Center

BRI was established in 2000 as the result of a $100-million commitment by Jim and Sally Barksdale. CEO of the Barksdale Reading Institute (BRI), Kelly Butler, announced on Sunday that the Institute will close its doors after twenty-two years of early-literacy work in Mississippi. For more than t

The other evening, I was watching the Stanley Cup Playoffs and was preparing for a good hockey game. Prior to the game, a World War II soldier who had been […]