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Education
April 29, 2014

Study Finds Poetry Slighted in Common Core English Standards

Significant overall reduction in time spent on classic literary texts will make it difficult to give poetry the prominence it deserves BOSTON – April is National Poetry Month, but poetry is not well addressed in Common Core’s English language arts standards. It’s...
Education
April 23, 2014

Common Core English and Math Standards Not Properly Validated

Study Finds Common Core English and Math Standards Not Properly Validated Some Validation Committee members refused to attest that the standards are comparable to those in the world’s highest-performing countries BOSTON – Five of the 29 members of the Common Core Validation...
Education
October 1, 2013

Lowering the Bar: How Common Core Math Fails to Prepare Students for STEM

Education
September 9, 2013

New Research on Common Core Damaging State/Local School Autonomy

Study Calls on U.S. Dept. of Education to Stop Using Adoption of Common Core as Condition or Incentive for Receipt of Federal Funds and Waivers In preface, Iowa’s U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley says education policy best made at level of government closest...
Education
June 28, 2013

Celebrating 20 Years of Education Reform in Massachusetts

Birmingham, Weld Oppose MA Adopting Common Core, Call for Lifting Charter School Caps Pioneer forum celebrates 20th anniversary of education reform with Weld, Birmingham, and panel of contributors to Bay State’s historic reforms Two of the three primary authors of Massachusetts’ landmark...
Education
November 29, 2012

Rejection of Anti-Common Core Model Legislation a Sad End to a Bizarre Process

Pioneer Institute's statement on the decision of the American Legislative Exchange Council Board to reject anti-Common Core model legislation that had been approved twice by ALEC’s education task force.
Education
September 18, 2012

New Study Suggests Remedies for Common Core Literature Deficit

State and local education policy makers in the 46 states that have adopted the Common Core State Standards should emphasize the literary-historical content that already exists in the standards and add an additional literature-based standard to address Common Core’s lack of literary content.
Education
February 22, 2012

STUDY ESTIMATES COST OF TRANSITION TO NATIONAL EDUCATION STANDARDS AT $16 BILLION

New study finds that aligning state and local educational systems to the Common Core State Standards in English language arts and math will cost the 45 states plus the District of Columbia that have adopted them nearly $16 billion over seven years.
Education
February 9, 2012

IS THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION VIOLATING FEDERAL LAW BY DIRECTING STANDARDS, TESTS, AND CURRICULA?

Despite three federal laws that prohibiting the federal government from directing, supervising or controlling K-12 curricula, the U.S. Department of Education has placed the nation on the road to a national curriculum.
Education
September 16, 2010

Common Core Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade

Common Core Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade Former Massachusetts and California Math and ELA Standards Remain Superior to National Standards Contact Samantha Levine-Neudel at 617-723-2277 ext. 211, or slevine@pioneerinst.wpengine.com Common Core’s Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO – The...