The Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd) agenda has seven "reform" priorities, and its work centers on influencing state governments to pass laws that are directly related to these reform priorities. The seven reform categories (shown in Box 1) are...
The Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd) is an organization founded in 2008 by Jeb Bush. After reading about Bush's claims that American teens were falling behind in math and science, and listening to his most recent speech at the Heritage Institute, I...
On March 5, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead signed the state's budget into law. The bill has a footnote that prohibits the Department of Education from spending any funds to check or revise the state's science standards. The reason this footnote was added to the Wyoming...
Anthony Cody (Living in Dialog) and Mercedes Schneider (deutsch29) wrote articles on their blogs about the Arne Duncan - Bill Gates - Common Standard's triumvirate. Cody commented that Duncan and Gates are trying to woo teachers to support the floundering rollout...
The Puzzling and Contradictory Nature of the Common Core State Standards (Common Core) initiative. The Common Core is a multi-billion dollar initiative that was adopted by 45 states and territories, while only five states refused to adopt the standards. Four years...
Last week, the Georgia legislature passed a bill in the Senate (SB 167) that will essentially opt the state out of the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and English language arts and other projects, ideas, technologies that have any glimmer of association...
