Why Race to the Middle?
In short, the rush to move from 50 state standards to a single set of standards for 50 states in less than one year, as well as the lack of…
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National Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade
/by Kathleen MadiganThe case for national standards rests in part on the need to remedy the inconsistent purposes and inferior quality of many state standards and tests in order to equalize academic…
The Road to a National Curriculum
/by Robert EitelKent D. Talbert is a co-founder of Talbert & Eitel, PLLC. His practice includes legal services to colleges and universities, accrediting agencies, the K-12 education sector, charter school organizations, professional…
Transcript: Why Huck Finn Matters: Classic Literature in Schooling
/by Jocelyn ChadwickI have heard, read, or seen these statements within the last year. What fascinated and concerned me then and continues to fascinate and concern me today is the level, the…
Testimony to the Kansas House Standing Committee on Education
/by Jim StergiosTestimony to the Kansas House Standing Committee on Education in February 2014. Download Testimony: Testimony to the Kansas House Standing Committee on Education…
U-Hong Kong Prof. Frank Dikötter on China: Mao’s Tyranny to Rising Superpower
/by Editorial Staff…gonna keep repeating same mistakes? And I think centralized [00:05:00] solutions like Common Core. The heavily regulated charter sector, which has been grinding to a halt in terms of expanding…
Testimony to the Missouri Elementary and Secondary Education Committee
/by Jim StergiosTestimony to the Missouri Elementary and Secondary Education Committee provided in February 2014. Download Report: Testimony to the Missouri Elementary and Secondary Education Committee…
Testimony to the Utah 2012 Education Interim Committee
/by Jim StergiosTestimony to the Utah 2012 Education Interim Committee in August 2012. Download Report: Testimony to the Utah 2012 Education Interim Committee…
Testimony to the Joint Education Committee
/by Jamie Gass“Testimony to the Joint Education Committee” was provided in May 2011. Download Report: Testimony to the Joint Education Committee…
Worcester Telegram & Gazette: Easy, wrong, vote on charters
/by Editorial Staff…an additional month and a half of learning in English and two and a half months in math each year compared with the commonwealth’s traditional public schools. These facts build…
Kudos to Anne Wass
/by Jim Stergios…the Saturday Globe for a very brief summary of the proposed common core standards’ failings. And, finally, a garland for Massachusetts Ed Secretary who has committed publicly to rejecting the…
Video Post Type Archive
/by Micaela Dawson…you to explore our video archive below. Support Our Campaign Against Common Core. As a small non-profit, we depend on the generous support of individuals like you to fund our…
Pioneer’s Transparency Update: “Sunshine Week” Edition
/by Mary Connaughton…to determine how much adopting Common Core national education standards would burden cities and towns. Conclusion: No such analysis existed! The Board overhauled the curriculum framework and exacted a potentially…
The Honorable William F. Weld, Former Massachusetts Governor
/by Editorial StaffThis video features the Honorable William F. Weld, former Massachusetts Governor and co-author of the 1993 Massachusetts Education Reform Law. Governor Weld gave one of the two Keynote addresses at…
Why MA finished 13th of 16 on the Race to the Top
/by Jim Stergios…MA BOE meetings last week on national standards) in moving forward on the national standards. We finished 40 points behind DE! Ouch. That really low score on MA’s RttT application…
Boston Herald: Schoolhouse doors blocked
/by Editorial StaffBy Jim Stergios Originally published in The Boston Herald on July 18, 2014 The Massachusetts Senate prides itself on being the more progressive of our two legislative branches. By voting…
Ed Commish "blatantly violated the law"
/by Jim StergiosPatrick Anderson at the Gloucester Times reports today that Superior Court Judge Richard Welch III found that the case presents “considerable evidence” that the state education commissioner and Board of…
The SCOTUS ruling’s impact on education policy
/by Jim StergiosInternet traffic has been especially heavy for the past 32 hours as people across the US are trying to understand just what the decision yesterday by SCOTUS means. The Affordable…
Perspectives on the Romney education plan
/by Jim StergiosA round-up of various perspectives on Governor Romney’s education policy announcement yesterday. I’ll post later on today to help you navigate through the noise, but it is always good to…
Romney and Obama tussle on education
/by Jim Stergios…who ironically oversaw the Commonwealth’s surge to become the top performing state in the nation. President Obama has a clear set of priorities, including nationalizing education standards, tests and curricula;…
What if Bill Gates rewarded results?
/by Jim StergiosLast winter, two things clarified my views on the utility of the Gates Foundation in education policy. One was an opportunity I had to spend time at the Samuel Roberts…
Arne Duncan gets sent to the principal’s office
/by Jim StergiosUS Education Secretary Arne Duncan is losing his allies fast. As the Huffington Post noted in early July, At its annual meeting in Chicago, The National Education Association’s Representative Assembly…
The Texas standards controversy: You decide
/by Jim StergiosGilbert King notes in his blog that Ironically, it was textbooks that brought Thurgood Marshall to Texas more than sixty years ago. Heman Marion Sweatt was an African American mail…
Massachusetts gets Race to the Top grant
/by Jim Stergios…lots of parents thinking about education. How did Massachusetts get the highest score of all the states? After all, they had strong unions support (unlike Massachusetts, where the local chapter…
Will MA forfeit education stimulus dollars?
/by Jim Stergios…they’re going to lose out,” Duncan said. He was speaking Tennessee where the charter cap is restrictive. It’s at 50. Our Commonwealth Charter cap is at 72. No, my friends,…
Students in which states are climbing the highest?
/by Jim StergiosA lot of the headlines in the general and specialized media on education have focused the past few years on the seemingly interminable list of federal initiatives, which are more…
How is this for pushing hard to obtain Race to the Top Funds?
/by Jim StergiosIn a recent post, I pointed to the new Commissioner of Education in RI, Deborah Gist, and her moves to remove seniority from decisions about teacher hiring and deployment. (Springfield,…
National standards talking points
/by Jim StergiosAcross the country, the NGA and the CCSSO will be using these talking points over and over again. They will say that the proposed national standards are: 1) Aligned with…
Who's Milquetoast? The envelope please…
/by Jim StergiosSo some of you did not get the reference to Caspar Milquetoast, even though I provided the wikipedia link. Hmm. Ok, the envelope please… Jesting, of course……
Needed: Matriculation exams tailored to each state’s higher education system
/by Sandra StotskySeveral 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…