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Originally posted on highly irritable :
Every year we all say that “next year” will be the one when we won’t stress as much during the holidays, and that we won’t “do so much.” There’s sometimes even crazy talk after a…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
In the spring of 2012, Brookings scholar Tom Loveless set off a firestorm when he wrote a study of the Common Core State Standards and concluded that they would make little or no…

Originally posted on Strange thoughts, random mutterings:
I was watching a reality TV show recently and one of the eager young contestants proudly boasted, “I have never failed at anything I’ve tried to do!” He smirked for the camera, and…

Originally posted on Everything is Better Wrapped in Bacon:
It started in 2005, not really the “Tradition” that Bing Crosby is. If you’re like me, then the holidays are a time of elaborate decoration, gift-giving and the hidden look of…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Mercedes Schneider has dug deep into the IRS 990 forms of the various organizations that wrote the Common Core standards and is piecing together the history of that effort. Although its advocates portray…