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Nope! Why adaptive software is not the same as personalized learning

July 17, 2017July 12, 2017 by Hilary Scharton

We all know that changes in public education move slowly, but there’s one specific educational dilemma we’ve been mired in for decades, with varying levels of rhetoric and…

What is Obama’s K-12 education legacy?

November 21, 2016November 21, 2016 by Laura Ascione Devaney and Meris Stansbury

Common Core, Race to the Top, and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)—just a few top-down, often-controversial, metrics-heavy K-12 reform initiatives favored by the Obama Administration that seemed…

Education Department tries to ease testing worries

August 26, 2014 by From staff and wire reports

Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Aug. 21 said that states can apply for extra time before they use student test scores to judge teachers' performance.

How the Common Core became education’s biggest bogeyman

January 10, 2014 by staff and wire services reports

Shortly before Thanksgiving, Arne Duncan made a glib remark about the Common Core that quickly blew up, the Huffington Post reports.

Duncan: U.S. failing ‘core responsibilities’ on education

October 1, 2013 by eSchool News Staff

[Editor’s note: In a Sept. 30 speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Education Secretary Arne Duncan urged education stakeholders to move “beyond the Beltway Bubble”…

Why Common Core tests won’t be what Arne Duncan promised

April 3, 2013 by staff and wire services reports

On Sept. 2, 2010, Education Secretary Arne Duncan gave a speech called “Beyond The Bubble Tests: The Next Generation of Assessments.” Duncan was referring to standardized tests that…

ED considering district-by-district NCLB waivers

February 22, 2013 by From wire service reports

Education Secretary Arne Duncan is talking with individual school districts about how to free them from unworkable parts of the federal No Child Left Behind law, signaling he…

Open letter to Arne Duncan from Chicago teachers

February 15, 2013 by staff and wire services reports

A coalition of teachers from public and private schools — including the school that Education Secretary Arne Duncan attended as a child and where President Obama’s daughters were…

Duncan: Hard to teach kids scared of being killed

January 18, 2013 by From wire service reports

Too many students worry more about being killed by a gun than learning in the classroom, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said on Jan. 17, as he cautioned that…

Education chief wants textbooks to go digital

November 20, 2012October 3, 2012 by From wire service reports

Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Oct. 2 called for the nation to move as fast as possible away from printed textbooks and toward digital ones. "Over the next…

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