America’s Woeful Public Schools: Lacking World-Class Standards
2 The number of states — Massachusetts and South Carolina — whose eighth-grade math standards are equivalent to those of the best-performing nations in math — South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and...
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Happy New Year
On behalf of all of our writers, I thank you for reading, commenting and spreading the word about this magazine’s mission on behalf of all our kids. And we thank God for providing the opportunities to...
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Voices of the Dropout Nation: Gwen Samuel on the Need for Parents to Take Power
Photo courtesy of the Connecticut Post Even as states such as California, Connecticut and Indiana have given parents the ability to force the overhauls of existing traditional public schools or escape...
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Voices of the Dropout Nation in Quotes: School Reform and Job Creation
We got to find our jobs when we got out of college. Our kids will have to increasingly create their jobs. The sooner and faster and more effectively we train them to do that, the better. – New York...
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When Being a Poor Man’s Diane Ravitch Isn’t Good Enough
One of the sad consequences of Diane Ravitch’s laughable attempt to become the Camille Paglia of education is that other university-based education researchers of the traditionalist mode want to do...
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The Conversation at Dropout Nation: NCTQ’s Arthur McKee on Reforming Ed Schools
On this special Conversation with Editor RiShawn Biddle, Arthur McKee of the National Council on Teacher Quality offers an opposing view on Dropout Nation‘s commentaries on the future of ed schools....
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Best of Dropout Nation: The Real Difference Between Bill Gates and Randi...
Yesterday, New York Times’ Sam Dillon decided to tread the same ground your editor covered two years ago (and others have done since). And as one would expect, Diane Ravitch and other defenders of the...
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When Your No Child Revamp Gets the NEA’s Backing…
Then it’s probably a really bad idea. Which is what U.S. Sen. (and onetime school reformer) Lamar Alexander should admit to himself this after the nation’s largest teachers’ union tacitly endorsed his...
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Happy Thanksgiving
As we at Dropout Nation enjoy apple peach pie and football (including,and hopefully, a loss by the Cowboys), we are thankful to each and every one of you for reading, for listening, and, ultimately,...
View ArticleAn Apology from Your Editor
Dear Loyal Readers: One of the things that Dropout Nation prides itself upon is being a family-friendly site in every way. This includes ensuring that readers can visit the site without any form of...
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