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How Massachusetts Promoted Achievement Before Common Core & PARCC
Before the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education…
Why Massachusetts Should Abandon the PARCC Tests & Common Core
It is difficult to find any public analysis and comments by teachers,…
Is it Time to Rethink State Boards of Education?
Some political officials (Governor Sandoval of Nevada) and self-described…
Don’t Waste the Crisis over Common Core
The entire Common Core project is rapidly going south, and within…
Steps for States to Follow to Replace Common Core
To help out governors and state legislatures that really want…
Common Core’s standards can be replaced by first-rate standards overnight
In a funny story in the Washington Post on December 24, 2014,…
How to Make Common Core Useful?
What could be done to make the idea of a common core across 50…
How to Maintain the Massachusetts “Education Miracle”
Not by using Common Core-based standards and tests, for sure,…
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…
Those Mathematical Societies That Supposedly Endorsed Common Core’s Standards Didn’t
Stanford University mathematics professor R. James Milgram included…
Doubling Down on Doublespeak
This past week, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by…
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…
On Common Core, a Study in Contrasts
In a front-page article in June, the Washington Post featured…
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…
Legislative Common Core Remedy No Panacea
The next phase of the Great Game to control the minds of the…
What Reporters Think They Know about Common Core
The public is ill-served by reporters who are no longer skeptical…
Audio: Lead Mathematics Standards-Writer William McCallum
These audio clips are from Professor William McCallum's remarks…
Debunking Common Core Myths
One of the most interesting phenomena in the “Common Core War”…
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…
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…
Support for Common Core’s Fuzzy Math Doesn’t Add Up (by Sandra Stotsky)
Unless high school students can prepare for a calculus course…
On Marc Tucker’s Credibility (by Sandra Stotsky)
In October, members of the New Hampshire legislature heard Marc…
Needed: Matriculation exams tailored to each state’s higher education system
Several decades ago, self-appointed education reformers decided…
Schizophrenia in the New York Times Editorial Office (by Sandra Stotsky)
The New York Times is suffering from a split personality about…
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…
4 Steps to Upgrade Teacher & Administrator Prep Programs (by Sandra Stotsky)
How to Upgrade Teacher and Administrator Preparation Programs
The…
How Long Before Duncan and the Media Speak Out Honestly? (by Sandra Stotsky)
The notion that Common Core’s college and career readiness…
Common Core’s Cloudy Vision of College Readiness in Math (by Sandra Stotsky)
Common Core’s egalitarian tentacles are now slithering towards…
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…
What To Do Once Common Core Is Halted (by Sandra Stotsky)
What could states do once implementation of Common Core’s standards…