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Entrepreneurs Seek to Disrupt College Admissions Testing—Will Knowledge or Critical Thinking Model Prevail?
by Robert Holland February 14, 2019Starting a company from scratch that’s able to compete with the long-entrenched SAT and ACT in the college-entrance testing business sounds like an impossible dream.
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Massachusetts Becomes Dumber So the Rest of Us Can Be Smarter
by Robert Holland February 14, 2018It is not likely that even an exhaustive review of commentary on education in 2017 could turn up quotes compelling enough to qualify as classic nuggets of wisdom.
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Homeschool Monthly #16: We The Students Scholarship Essay Contest
by Lennie Jarratt September 28, 2017The Bill of Rights Institute is sponsoring the We The Students Scholarship Essay Contest. The topic is “To what extent in the U.S. does the government – federal, state, or…
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Homeschool Monthly #6: Number of Homeschoolers Doubled
by Lennie Jarratt November 30, 2016A report from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) shows the number of students who are homeschooled more than doubled between 1999 and 2012 to more than 1.8 million students. The data show homeschooling…
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Homeschool Monthly #2: Homeschoolers Outperform Other Students on SAT
by Lennie Jarratt July 28, 2016There has been a downward trend in average SAT scores since 1972. Homeschool students, however, currently score higher than traditional school students and, in fact, have higher scores than the…
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Lennie Jarratt: Illinois Board of Education Adopts Common-Core-Aligned SAT Testing
by Lennie Jarratt July 20, 2016In today’s edition of the Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in to Terry James Radio Show where Heartland Project Manager for Education joins the show to talk about the Illinois State Board of Education’s decision to drop PARCC testing for high school.
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Author Peter W. Wood Proclaims ‘Common Core is Dead’
by Nancy Thorner April 12, 2016As part of The Heartland Institute’s continuing series of book and movie events, specifically designed to showcase freedom, the book, “Drilling through the Core”, edited with an introduction by Peter W. Wood, was presented by the author on Wednesday, April 6 in the newly named Andrew Breitbart Freedom Center, located at Heartland’s Arlington Heights facility, 3939 North Wilke Road, Arlington Heights, IL 60004.
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National Common Core-aligned standardized tests for elementary and secondary schools are in the midst of a death spiral, despite the $360 million the Obama administration spent on the creation of the two consortia, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Smarter Balanced, five years ago.