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How Massachusetts Promoted Achievement Before Common Core & PARCC
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Before the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education…
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Why Massachusetts Should Abandon the PARCC Tests & Common Core
It is difficult to find any public analysis and comments by teachers,…
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Is it Time to Rethink State Boards of Education?
Some political officials (Governor Sandoval of Nevada) and self-described…
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Don’t Waste the Crisis over Common Core
The entire Common Core project is rapidly going south, and within…
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Steps for States to Follow to Replace Common Core
To help out governors and state legislatures that really want…
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Common Core’s standards can be replaced by first-rate standards overnight
In a funny story in the Washington Post on December 24, 2014,…
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How to Make Common Core Useful?
What could be done to make the idea of a common core across 50…
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How to Maintain the Massachusetts “Education Miracle”
Not by using Common Core-based standards and tests, for sure,…
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How Colleges Are Dumbing Our Kids Down, Too, and What We Can Do About It
It’s not just Common Core’s standards and the curriculum…
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Those Mathematical Societies That Supposedly Endorsed Common Core’s Standards Didn’t
Stanford University mathematics professor R. James Milgram included…
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Doubling Down on Doublespeak
This past week, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by…
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What Wakefield, NH’s School Board Is Doing to Ensure a First-Rate Education for All Its Students
As state legislatures begin to pick up steam in their efforts…
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On Common Core, a Study in Contrasts
In a front-page article in June, the Washington Post featured…
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7 Major Differences between No Child Left Behind and Common Core/Race to the Top
1. Focus of Accountability: Schools or Teachers
Under No Child…
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Legislative Common Core Remedy No Panacea
The next phase of the Great Game to control the minds of the…
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What Reporters Think They Know about Common Core
The public is ill-served by reporters who are no longer skeptical…
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Audio: Lead Mathematics Standards-Writer William McCallum
These audio clips are from Professor William McCallum's remarks…
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Debunking Common Core Myths
One of the most interesting phenomena in the “Common Core War”…
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Why Common Core’s roll-out is as bad as ObamaCare’s (by Sandra Stotsky)
It's odd to observe just how oblivious the media have been to…
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Will Michael Brickman, Tim Shanahan, Politifact, Fox News, and USA Today do some careful reading, please? (by Sandra Stotsky)
In How Common Core's ELA Standards Place College Readiness at…
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Support for Common Core’s Fuzzy Math Doesn’t Add Up (by Sandra Stotsky)
Unless high school students can prepare for a calculus course…
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On Marc Tucker’s Credibility (by Sandra Stotsky)
In October, members of the New Hampshire legislature heard Marc…
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Needed: Matriculation exams tailored to each state’s higher education system
Several decades ago, self-appointed education reformers decided…
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Schizophrenia in the New York Times Editorial Office (by Sandra Stotsky)
The New York Times is suffering from a split personality about…
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New York State Test Results: Uninterpretable But a Portent of the Future (by Sandra Stotsky)
In the original version of David Steiner's talk on the meaning…
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4 Steps to Upgrade Teacher & Administrator Prep Programs (by Sandra Stotsky)
How to Upgrade Teacher and Administrator Preparation Programs
The…
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How Long Before Duncan and the Media Speak Out Honestly? (by Sandra Stotsky)
The notion that Common Core’s college and career readiness…
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Common Core’s Cloudy Vision of College Readiness in Math (by Sandra Stotsky)
Common Core’s egalitarian tentacles are now slithering towards…
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More Than One Fatal Flaw in Common Core’s ELA Standards (by Sandra Stotsky)
There isn’t just one fatal flaw in Common Core's English language…
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What To Do Once Common Core Is Halted (by Sandra Stotsky)
What could states do once implementation of Common Core’s standards…