Students at St. Olaf College are being told they “MUST join EMAE” [Education Minnesota Aspiring Educators] if they are licensure candidates completing field experiences or student teaching with the Education Department. This appears to be in violation of student teachers' First Amendment rights upheld in the Janus decision....
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Teacher merit pay does have merit and should rejoin the teacher compensation debate. ...
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What is good, bad, and absent from the Senate Republican tax bill...
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This article was originally published by the Star Tribune. Minnesota schools, like schools across the nation, have been striving for decades to shrink the stubborn racial learning gap. The frustration caused by repeated failure accounts, in large part, for the support behind the latest proposal: the Page-Kashkari constitutional amendment that would make a “quality” education a “fundamental right.” Unfortunately, the amendment is virtually certain not to produce the desired academic improvements. Instead, its adoption would likely lead to a loss of democratic control over education, coupled with mind-boggling financial outlays and continued low performance. The amendment’s noble-sounding, aspirational language is appealing at first glance. It...
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Public education bureaucrats are working to squeeze out school choice under the guise of desegregation through “controlled choice.” ...
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From stricter school discipline policies to shifting perceptions on teacher salary increases, the opinions of the general public are getting less attention from presidential candidates than they deserve....
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Authored by American University’s Seth Gershenson, "Great Expectations: The Impact of Rigorous Grading Practices on Student Achievement" investigates how the grading standards of an Algebra I teacher affect content mastery—as measured by student performance—and students’ longer-term performance in subsequent math courses. The "everyone gets a gold star" mentality does more harm than good. ...
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This testimony before the Minnesota Senate Education Committee was delivered on February 5, 2020. Madam Chair and Members of the Committee, my name is Mitch Pearlstein and it’s an honor to be with you today to talk about civics education. At the risk of resume reading, I have held several jobs over the years pertinent to the subject at hand in education, government, and journalism, including special assistant for policy and communications to Gov. Al Quie; as an official of the U.S. Department of Education; as an editorial writer for the Pioneer Press; and as founder of Center of the American Experiment. ...
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In response to National School Choice Week, the #ILovePublicSchools Twitter hashtag was scheduled to evoke support for public schools, according to Choice Media. But the top tweets under the #ILovePublicSchools hashtag were just the opposite. ...
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Another double-standard by a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate regarding school choice has been reported....
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