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Some political officials (Governor Sandoval of Nevada) and self-described policy wonks (Fordham Institute staff) are calling into question the usefulness of locally elected local school boards. Governor Sandoval suggested replacing…
It is difficult to find any public analysis and comments by teachers, parents, researchers, or literary scholars on PARCC’s “practice” and “sample” test items for English language arts for grades…
Before the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) officially decides to adopt PARCC’s testing system in place of the testing system that the Department of Elementary and Secondary…
…government,” said Sandra Stotsky, 21st Century Chair in Teacher Quality at the University of Arkansas’s Department of Education Reform, speaking at The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. Stotsky and four other…
…“Appendix A. Critique of Criteria for Evaluating Common Core-Aligned Assessments” in Mark McQuillan, Richard P. Phelps, & Sandra Stotsky. (2015, October). How PARCC’s false rigor stunts the academic growth of…
Several decades ago, self-appointed education reformers decided that more low-performing students should go to college and graduate than now do. They concluded that the quickest route to their goal was…
Not by using Common Core-based standards and tests, for sure, or anything that looks like them. The English language arts and mathematics standards dumped by the Governor Patrick-appointed Board of…
…out of place when he speaks of “high academic standards that are benchmarked to the best in the world.” Why? As Sandra Stotsky, a national expert on academic standards who…
…Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life; and University of Arkansas Professor Emerita Sandra Stotsky, a former member of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. Last year, a commission chaired…
…are shutting down. They’re getting bored. I’m seeing more behavior problems in my classroom than I’ve ever seen.” Sandra Stotsky, who from 1991-97 was the editor of Research in the…
…by Sandra Stotsky Study: Common Core & 2 Testing Consortia Violate Federal Laws, Unlikely to Improve Academic Achievement by Williamson Evers Pioneer Institute Statement on MBAE PARCC/MCAS Study Education Commissioner…
…with the Commonwealth’s adoption of Common Core Standards in 2010). Sandy Stotsky, for example, wrote many of the English Language Standards in the 1990s, might be the country’s most prolific…
…the assertion that substituting informational texts for literature will improve students’ college readiness,” scholars Mark Bauerlein and Sandra Stotsky said in 2012. “In fact, experience suggests that exactly the opposite…
Stotsky first describes her 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…
Gates, Duncan, Fordham et al misunderstood from the beginning who the strongest critics of Common Core would be. Just because they successfully sold Common Core as a workforce development panacea…
With Common Core Collapsing, New Scholarly Book Informs Debate about Academic Quality, Cost, and Illegal Federal Role in K-12 Education “Drilling through the Core: Why Common Core is Bad for…
…by curriculum expert Sandra Stotsky, the commonwealth’s U.S. history frameworks and pre-Common Core English standards reflect an intellectual coherence that grounds students in America’s literary and civic culture. However, in…
…point. It shows Sandra Stotsky (off screen) grilling Jason Zimba, the architect of the Mathematics standards, at a meeting of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Zimba admits that, far from…
…Texas Commissioner of Education Dr. Bill Evers, Research Fellow, Stanford University’s Hoover Institute Dr. Sandra Stotsky, Professor of Education Reform, University of Arkansas Theodor Rebarber, Founder & CEO, AccountabilityWorks, Washington,…
…and with an introduction by Peter W. Wood, and contributions by some of the country’s top education scholars, including Sandra Stotsky, R. James Milgram, Williamson Evers, Ze’ev Wurman, and more……
…assessments that would provide better information about student performance. Co-author Sandra Stotsky debated a PARCC proponent on WBUR’s Radio Boston, and the report received coverage in the State House News…
…math preparation between students from America and other countries. Professor Schmid explains how he became interested in K-12 mathematics, and his work with education expert Dr. Sandra Stotsky in drafting…
…of the 20th century, British literature held the center of high school English courses…,” warned scholars Mark Bauerlein and Sandra Stotsky in 2012. “We find no explanation for Common Core…
…of Harvard University mathematician Wilfried Schmid, standards expert Sandra Stotsky, and state math and science teachers. MERA’s science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) standards and high-stakes tests were central to…
…and … college courses in composition, English, history, [and] linguistics …,” scholars Mark Bauerlein and Sandra Stotsky warned in 2012. “We find no explanation for Common Core dispensing with it.”…
…Inc. In 2010 Wurman served on the California Academic Content Standards Commission that evaluated the suitability of Common Core’s standards for California, and is coauthor with Sandra Stotsky of “Common…
…know, 40 years of, reading research. You know, I think of experts like Jeanne S. Chall from Harvard and her protege Sandra Stotsky you know, who helped build Massachusetts curriculum…
…Internationally benchmarking would mean that the writing team had conducted extensive research and direct comparative analysis on the academic expectations of other leading countries. As Sandy Stotsky has noted: As…
…by states. For some, for some it’s a wash, and for some it is a step backwards. Prominent researchers and subject experts (Stotsky, Wurman, Milgram, Porter and others) find the…
…on which we generally refer to experts. Think national education experts like Sandra Stotsky, James Milgram, Ze’ev Wurman, Mark Bauerlein, and folks who have worked in states and studied this…
