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The 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results in Mathematics and reading were released yesterday and the results indicate modest gains nationally with substantial gains in Tennessee and the District of Columbia.
Yesterday’s New York Times editorial page featured the recent Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (
America’s public K-12 education system isn’t making the grade. It’s not adequately preparing our students to succeed in college or the modern workforce. It’s not delivering the skilled workers that businesses need to drive stronger economic growth.
What do adults in Japan, Finland, the Netherlands, Australia, and Sweden and seven other countries have in common? They score better in literacy than U.S. adults.
If you are a regular reader of the Chamber Foundation's education blog, you know that one way to assess the quality of our nation’s education system is to look at other industrialized nations for comparison.
Should states only set educational standards that are easily attainable? Apparently, that's what many critics of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) believe. This notion should drive every parent insane.
Yesterday, President Obama outlined a new proposal for reforming our nation’s higher education system and for making college more affo
