by Jack Jennings | Feb 27, 2020 | academic standards, charter schools, common state standards, education research, Fatigued by School Reform: articles, interviews, and more, federal education policy, federal funding, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), private schools / vouchers / and other choice, school funding, teachers, tests / assessments
Fatigued by School Reform, by Jack Jennings After a half-a-century of school reform, a majority of Americans consider the public schools as worse today than when they attended school. Those reforms missed the mark because they were not focused on the...
by Jack Jennings | Sep 4, 2018 | academic standards, accountability, education research, federal education policy, federal funding, No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), politics, school funding, teachers, tests / assessments
In December 2015, when President Barack Obama signed into law the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) — replacing the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 — congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle breathed a deep sigh of relief. Not only had NCLB grown...
by Jack Jennings | Jun 7, 2018 | school funding
State and national leaders were given a grade of D minus by Ed Week showing a lack of commitment to adequately fund the schools, despite rhetoric about education’s importance. “Watch what someone does–not what they say,” to see their real...
by Jack Jennings | Nov 11, 2017 | advocating, politics, school funding, teachers
Corporations and the rich will pay less in taxes. Public education will be weakened. Revenge on Democratic-leaning states will be extracted. This trifecta of disastrous results comes from the budget bill passed in late October by the House and by the Senate a...
by Jack Jennings | Nov 10, 2017 | children with disabilities, federal funding, school funding
Future leaders often seem to come from high school debate teams. Students participate in these debates because they are interested in current affairs and want to hone their public speaking skills. The National Federation of State High School Associations has announced...
by Jack Jennings | Jan 23, 2015 | charter schools, federal education policy, No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), private schools / vouchers / and other choice, school funding, teachers, tests / assessments
In March the Harvard Education Press released a new book by Jack Jennings. Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools analyzes a half century of national school improvement efforts, such as Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the No Child Left...
by Jack Jennings | Feb 15, 2013 | academic standards, accountability, common state standards, school funding
Educators in the Nation’s largest state are breathing a deep sigh of relief that public schooling has been freed from the political and economic morass in which it has been mired for over a decade. Bottles of champagne are not yet being popped because educators...
