NR Daily: Thanks to One Reform, School Principals Spend Weeks Doing Paperwork

School reformers have shown an unlovely fascination with wielding top-down mandates in the hope of making school system bureaucracies behave. This inevitably means taking sensible ideas and turning them into paper-strewn compliance exercises. A case in point is the 19 days that Nevada's school principals now report spending each year on pointless clerical work demanded by the state's new teacher-evaluation system. But more on that in a moment ...

September 07 2017

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Thanks to One Reform, School Principals Spend Weeks Doing Paperwork Frederick M. Hess, Brendan Bell School reformers have shown an unlovely fascination with wielding top-down mandates in the hope of making school system bureaucracies behave. This inevitably means taking sensible ideas and turning them into paper-strewn compliance exercises. A case in point is the 19 days that Nevada's school principals now report... READ MORE How 'Fake but Accurate' Stories Sunk Liberal Journalism Jonathan S. Tobin When CNN had to retract a story about a Trump campaign adviser named Anthony Scaramucci and his alleged ties to Russians this past June, the president crowed. This was before Scaramucci's brief... Beware of Narratives and Misinformation Victor Davis Hanson U.S. intelligence agencies said Russia was responsible for hacking Democratic National Committee e-mail accounts, leading to the publication of about 20,000 stolen e-mails on WikiLeaks. But... ADVERTISEMENT America the White? Elliot Kaufman, Adam Rubenstein 'We are all only rats trapped in Madison's maze," the late scholar of the American founding, Walter Berns, was known to say. But it turns out he was wrong — James Madison is only of secondary... What Kind of War Is Trump Threatening with North Korea? George Will The U.S. Air Force "sniffer plane" was collecting air samples off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on September 3, 1949, when it gathered evidence of radioactivity, confirming that the war-shattered... Citizen Newt Gingrich Craig Shirley Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt of Citizen Newt: The Making of a Reagan Conservative by Craig Shirley. It is adapted here with permission.   They began in old shoeboxes, Newt... ADVERTISEMENT Raylan: A Novel Elmore Leonard "In addition to kinetic storytelling and spot-on dialogue, Leonard has a cool wit. . . . Characters roll from scene to scene, urged on by self-interest and greed, bumping against one another and building up steam until they're smashing together in orgies of violence ." - New York Times Book Review LEARN MORE Venice Film Festival Battle of Marawi ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 215 Lexington Ave., New York, NY, 10016, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.