Ann Waldman: Vermont’s Voucher Program Pays Tuition at Elite Boarding Schools
Voucher advocates like to point to Vermont as the nation’s oldest program. When it was started in 1869, it was intended to pay the tuition...
Category : Vermont
Vermont Says NO to John King!
Vermont is the smartest state in the nation. Not because of test scores, but because the officials in charge of education actually care about children...
Vermont Board of Education: Common Core Tests Don’t Mean Much
Vermont continues to be amazing. It recently issued a letter to parents telling them not to worry about the Common Core tests because the...
The Success of Schools in Massachusetts Cannot Be Explained by Testing
Andy Hargreaves is a professor at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. He received the Grawemeyer Award in 2015. He and two of...
Wendy Lecker: If Only Connecticut Leaders Were as Wise as Vermont’s
Civil right attorney Wendy Lecker chastises education leaders in Connecticut for their whole-hearted embrace of the Smarter Balanced Assessment. She contrasts her home state with...
Peter Berger: At Least Do No Harm
Peter Berger teaches English at Weathersfield High School in Vermont. He says that the amount of instructional time wasted for faux professional development days is...
Peter Greene: Will This Be the Year That Educators Say “Enough”?
Peter Greene sees signs that educators are fed up with the top-down mandates from non-educator Arne Duncan, fed up with the failed punitive policies of...
FAIRTEST: The Resistance to Test Mania Grows Stronger
If the issues were not so serious, watching test-and-punish advocates backpedal in the face of the rapidly growing testing resistance movement would be great entertainment....
Vermont to the Nation: This Is What Good Education Looks Like
The Vermont State Board of Education adopted a resolution on assessment and accountability with a message: We will not let the federal government bully our...
New York Times Reports on Duncan’s Retreat from Test-Based Evaluations of Teachers
In the New York Times, Motoko Rich reported Arne Duncan’s scathing criticism of Arne Duncan’s policy of test-based evaluation for teachers. The story shows that...