Mandatory Volunteerism
…local partners, with the National School Boards Association, Achieve, Inc., the National Governors Association’s lobby and other fellow travelers who made a point of employing words like “state-led,” “voluntary,” and…
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Mandatory Volunteerism
/by Editorial Staff…and local partners, with the National School Boards Association, Achieve, Inc., the National Governors Association’s lobby and other fellow travelers who made a point of employing words like “state-led,” “voluntary,”…
Fmr. Mississippi Chief Dr. Carey Wright on State Leadership & NAEP Gains
/by Editorial Staff…it’s funny, a, a good friend of [00:41:00] mine works for a company that, creates curriculum for early childhood, you know, early childhood curriculum. And so I was interested to…
Harvard Mathematician Prof. Wilfried Schmid on K-12 Standards & Results
/by Editorial Staff…drafting the 2000 Massachusetts Mathematics Curriculum Framework and served on the U.S. National Mathematics Advisory Panel (NMAP) in 2008. Dr. Schmid shares how he became interested in mathematics, and how…
Setting the Record Straight on Common Core Part 2
/by Editorial Staff…of Aligning States and Localities to Common Core The Road to a National Curriculum Controlling Education from the Top Why Race to the Middle? Fair to Middling: A National Standards…
Lowering the Bar: How Common Core Math Fails to Prepare Students for STEM
/by Editorial Staff…standards includes: Common Core Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade; The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional…
February a Month to Remember (or Forget) in National K-12 Standards Debate
/by Editorial Staffhttp://www.ediswatching.org/2012/02/february-a-month-to-remember-or-forget-in-national-k-12-standards-debate/ Last spring I told you about a growing movement to oppose the Common Core standards and accompanying assessments, as well as the momentum toward a national curriculum. Well, a…
D.C.’s Kevin Chavous on National School Choice Week
/by Editorial Staff…and national school reform leader. From 1993 to 2005, Chavous served on the Council of the District of Columbia, where as the education committee chair, he helped to usher charter…
Well, so much for objective analysis : MA DESE and RttT one more time
/by Jim Stergios…national standards. Interestingly, the Hunt Institute, which has received $3.8 million from the Gates Foundation to advocate for the national standards, is fishing around for a group in MA to…
Self-dealing among education officials
/by Jim Stergios…Last week, I wrote about the conflictitis that plagues the longstanding group of DC-based advocates of national standards. The post focused largely on the façade of objectivity put up by…
John Steele Gordon on America’s Economic Rise
/by Editorial Staff…is a national disgrace. you know, I wrote a history of the national debt called Hamilton’s blessing because Hamilton wrote that a national debt will be for us a national…
Supreme Debt Consideration: Will Biden’s Student Debt Cancellation Get Passing Grade?
/by Editorial Staff…which says that if there is a national emergency like the COVID pandemic, which was declared a national emergency by Trump, then the government can potentially waive or modify regulations…
National Park Service Attracts Cape Cod Summer Visitors
/by Harris Foulkes…employees working for the National Park Service, there is a targeted effort to protect the beauty of Cape Cod and its 40 miles of National Seashore that play such a…
Johns Hopkins’ Ashley Berner on Educational Pluralism & Democracy
/by Editorial Staff…in this article is observing? Well, she observes things [00:01:00] like direct instruction or memorizing math. Facts, you know, road memorization, and I mean, look, road memorization, direct learning. I…
Wall Street Journal: Conservatives Oppose National Standards
/by Editorial Staffhttp://blog.heritage.org/2012/05/09/wall-street-journal-conservatives-oppose-national-standards/ Opponents of national standards and tests see the push as furthering “federal intrusion into state education matters,” asserts the Wall Street Journal today. While the standards have been touted…
The wrong lesson on national standards
/by Jim Stergios…of national standards know their history and what is legal and illegal, and why all this was a bad idea. Well, I just watched this national standards promo video by…
Johns Hopkins’ Dr. David Steiner on Teaching Wisdom in Schools
/by Editorial Staff…are assessed by tests that are largely skills based, not content based, right? Because we can’t agree on a national curriculum or even a state level curriculum, we’ve got to…
Video: Setting the Record Straight on Common Core
/by Editorial Staff…of Aligning States and Localities to Common Core The Road to a National Curriculum Controlling Education from the Top Why Race to the Middle? Fair to Middling: A National Standards…
Accountability Overboard: Massachusetts poised to toss out the nation’s most successful reforms
/by Editorial Staff…some of Patrick’s speeches. More recently, Patrick chaired the platform committee for the Democratic National Convention that nominated Obama. But we can only hope their similarities don’t extend to education…
Ed Glaeser’s Straw Man on Common Core (by Jim Stergios)
/by Jim Stergios…test will lift performance of U.S. students. There are nations that have national standards and tests that do better than the US on international assessments; others that do worse. There…
Education news from other states
/by Jim Stergios…a thus-far postponed debate on where proficiency will be set (cut scores), and a manifesto issued by the Shanker Institute arguing for a national curriculum. The tentacles of the Gates…
Author Nicholas Basbanes on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & the Spirit of American Poetry
/by Editorial Staff…2016, he was awarded a Public Scholar research fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities, his second NEH grant, for work on Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry…
U.S. Manufacturing Health: Does the U.S. Need an Industrial Policy?
/by Editorial Staff…Lincicome. Mr. Lincicome writes on international and domestic economic issues, including international trade, subsidies and industrial policy, manufacturing global supply chains, and economic dynamism for Cato and The Dispatch. [00:01:44]…
UCLA’s Prof. James Stigler on Teaching & Learning Math
/by Editorial Staff…so it includes curriculum, teaching and learning, culture, students, curriculum, materials. I mean, there’s so much involved in education, and we do have a tendency to try to zero in…
2018AnnualReport
/by Editorial Staff…leading the national movement for high-quality, state-based K–12 education standards. In 2018, Common Core-aligned national tests continue in less than a quarter of their original member states. After extensive Pioneer…
UK’s Charles Moore on Lady Margaret Thatcher & Cold War Leadership
/by Editorial Staff…what I’m thinking about. I am just shocked by high. Attention. One of the issues that I think is really important is getting a lot of other issues, national, international…
Common Core Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade
/by Editorial Staff…racing to the top nationally; we’re already there. Adopting the national standards slows us in the real competition – the one between Massachusetts and countries with the world’s best education…
39th U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky for National Poetry Month
/by Editorial Staff…think we’re gonna have a lot of great discussions and conversations with him. And in case you didn’t know, April is National Poetry Month as well. So, I want to…
NYU Law Prof. Richard Epstein on the Founders’ Constitution & Federalism
/by Editorial Staff…that I don’t know if I’ve had a chance to sing this song, but the one by Willie Nelson on the road again so I was on the road again,…
Don’t Count Your Chickens Before Elections: Tony Bennett’s Defeat in Indiana
/by Jim Stergios…EdWeek’s “Leadership Forum” sent an email invitation entitled “Save the Date: Road Maps to Common Core Success in March 2013.” I invite you to attend Road Maps to Common Core…