Gov. Jindal’s Common Core Lawsuit Draws on Pioneer’s Research
…have sought to exit Common Core and national tests. Noted journalist George Will cited Pioneer’s work on the legal dimensions of Common Core in a 2012 Washington Post column, with…
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New questions surround ‘common core’
/by Editorial Staffhttp://www.thestarpress.com/article/20120622/OPINION/306220009/New-questions-surround-common-core-?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1 A battle is brewing on the education reform front over Indiana’s embrace of Common Core – a set of math and English standards being implemented across the country to…
What Reporters Think They Know about Common Core
/by Sandra Stotsky…(“Sold” may be the more accurate word.) Six ways Common Core changes English and math classrooms: Before Common Core English classes concentrated on literature, like Huckleberry Finn and Great Gatsby…
Study Finds Common Core Incompatible With Catholic Education
/by Editorial Staff…adopted Common Core. But the tide began to turn, and in 2013 a group of 132 Catholic scholars sent a letter to American bishops asserting that adopting Common Core would…
Debunking Common Core Myths
/by Sandra StotskyOne of the most interesting phenomena in the “Common Core War” is the number of “myths,” “claims,” and “facts” that have been put out by the advocates of Common Core’s…
Common Core State Standards Estimated Cost is $16 Billion for States
/by Editorial Staffhttp://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2012/02/common-core-state-standards-estimated-cost-is-16-billion-for-states/ BOSTON/WASHINGTON, D.C./SAN FRANCISCO – 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…
On Common Core, a Study in Contrasts
/by Sandra Stotsky…in where a cut score, or passing score, might be set on the PARCC test. And the U.S. Chamber of Commerce thinks Common Core’s standards and tests increase academic achievement!…
Op-ed: Big money pushes PARCC and Common Core
/by Jim Stergios…leader in independent research on the topic. Read our most recent op-eds, commentary and research on Common Core and Common Core-aligned PARCC.How Massachusetts Promoted Achievement Before Common Core & PARCC…
Support for Common Core’s Fuzzy Math Doesn’t Add Up (by Sandra Stotsky)
/by Sandra Stotsky…to take calculus your freshman year in college, you will need to take more mathematics than is in the Common Core.” Common Core proponents repeat the mantra that Common Core…
Don’t Waste the Crisis over Common Core
/by Sandra StotskyThe entire Common Core project is rapidly going south, and within two years may be no more than a dim memory of a nightmare in the minds of a growing…
Jeb Bush’s Rhetoric and Reality on Common Core
/by Editorial Staff…the Common Core is a high standard and that “the rigor of the Common Core State Standards must be the new minimum in classrooms.” With the Core aiming to instruct…
What Will Common Core Standards Cost States?
/by Editorial Staff…to prepare students to meet Common Core’s demands or aligning teacher preparation programs with Common Core, were not included. The estimates by the Fordham Institute, a general supporter of Common…
Common Core’s standards can be replaced by first-rate standards overnight
/by Sandra Stotsky…Common Core-based standards. They will soon find out how welcome a different set of standards would be. And how much they might support a new use for Common Core-based tests…
Those Mathematical Societies That Supposedly Endorsed Common Core’s Standards Didn’t
/by Sandra Stotsky…organization, not academic affiliation. Nor were they asked to review the Common Core standards but, rather, to provide a promotional statement for the Common Core. The support statement was posted…
How to Make Common Core Useful?
/by Sandra Stotsky…Ever Get to Design National English Standards, and Why Would We Respect Them” (pp. 103-122). In K. Lombard (Ed.), Common Ground on Common Core. Madison, Wisconsin: Resounding Books, 2014. http://www.resoundingbooks.org/books/commonground/…
Full house hears panel’s criticisms of Common Core
/by Editorial Staffhttp://www.deseretnews.com/article/865558845/Full-house-hears-panels-criticisms-of-Common-Core.html SANDY — Concerned residents filled the auditorium of the Salt Lake Community College Miller Campus Tuesday for a panel discussion on the failures of the Common Core State Standards….
Why Common Core’s roll-out is as bad as ObamaCare’s (by Sandra Stotsky)
/by Sandra Stotsky…Common Core according to the National Association of Elementary School Principals (www.naesp.org/leadership-common-core). But see this. Misrepresentations are borne of ignorance or intellectual blinders. With so many misrepresentations piling up here,…
West Virginia, Massachusetts and why the End Common Core ballot is going forward
/by Jim StergiosWhen it comes to the “confidence game” that has been played around the country to advance Common Core standards, there are few places where connivance was more on display than…
Op-ed: Gulliver’s Travels and Common Core
/by Jamie Gass…Jonathan Swift’s playful creativity and unique language dwarfs the “informational texts” found in nationalized K-12 standards known as Common Core. But Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration traded away Massachusetts’ proven, literature-rich…
States Should Adopt Stand-Alone Teacher Licensure Test in Reading Linked to Common Core
/by Editorial StaffStates Should Adopt Stand-Alone Teacher Licensure Test in Reading Linked to Common Core Passing the test should be a requirement for all early education and elementary school teachers, most special…
More Than One Fatal Flaw in Common Core’s ELA Standards (by Sandra Stotsky)
/by Sandra Stotsky…least able readers and writers, the very ones Common Core wants to make “college-ready.” But will anyone point the finger of blame at Common Core’s inappropriate and uncoordinated writing standards?…
Why Massachusetts Should Abandon the PARCC Tests & Common Core
/by Sandra Stotsky…my qualifications, as well as the lack of relevant qualifications in Common Core’s standards writers and in most of the members of Common Core’s Validation Committee, on which I served…
“Common Core” Education Standards Forum to Address Backlash Against Federal Takeover
/by Editorial Staffhttp://ceo.ulitzer.com/node/2309642 WHAT: “Common Core State Standards” (CCSS) Forum WHEN: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 Media interviews: 6:00-7:00 p.m. Panel Discussion: 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. WHERE: Larry Miller Auditorium, SLCC Campus 9750…
Common Core Standards Will Be Expensive for the States
/by Editorial Staff…to develop the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) — a uniform instructional system that would be adopted nationwide. The federal government involved itself by coercing adoption of the CCSSI…
7 Major Differences between No Child Left Behind and Common Core/Race to the Top
/by Sandra Stotsky1. Focus of Accountability: Schools or Teachers Under No Child Left Behind (NCLB), schools and school districts were held accountable based on student scores. Under Common Core/Race to the Top…
Panel Convenes to Discuss Common Core in Utah
/by Editorial Staffhttp://www.educationnews.org/education-policy-and-politics/panel-convenes-to-discuss-common-core-in-utah/ A panel was convened at Utah’s Salt Lake Community College Miller Campus to discuss the downsides of adopting the Common Core State Standards this week. The Standards, which are…
Steps for States to Follow to Replace Common Core
/by Sandra Stotsky…deceive the parents of the state, and feed back a warmed-over version of Common Core as is now happening in South Carolina and Oklahoma, and as has happened in Indiana…
Watch “Building the Machine,” New Common Core Movie
/by Editorial Staff“Building the Machine” is an excellent primer on the fatal deficiencies of Common Core national education standards. It features Pioneer’s Jim Stergios as well as all the major authors of…
What To Do Once Common Core Is Halted (by Sandra Stotsky)
/by Sandra StotskyWhat could states do once implementation of Common Core’s standards is halted? Most states are unlikely to want to return to the standards they once had, mainly because their boards…
Sandra Stotsky Discusses Common Core
/by Editorial StaffDr. Sandra Stotsky, Professor Emerita, University of Arkansas, former Senior Associate Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Education, describes some of the problems with the quality of the Common Core…