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A Republic of Republics: How Common Core Undermines State and Local Autonomy over K-12 Education
/by Robert ScottBy signing on to national standards and the assessments that will accompany them, participating states have ceded their autonomy to design and oversee the implementation of their own standards and…
Trust Us, We’re Not Nationalizing Curriculum
/by Editorial Staff…with the Common Core national standards, and it has tied No Child Left Behind waivers to adoption of the common standards. For all that, the administration claims that any state…
Conflicts of interest in Mass’s adoption of national education standards
/by Editorial Staff…state’s current standards to the Common Core, deemed that Common Core “meets the business community’s objective of enhancing the college and career readiness of our students. Fordham is a research…
How Colleges Are Dumbing Our Kids Down, Too, and What We Can Do About It
/by Sandra StotskyIt’s not just Common Core’s standards and the curriculum teachers are putting into place to address those standards that are dumbing our kids down. Our colleges are contributing in their…
New York State Test Results: Uninterpretable But a Portent of the Future (by Sandra Stotsky)
/by Sandra Stotsky…on Common Core’s standards are given across this country, low scores will not mean that high school graduation standards are rising or that Common Core’s standards are rigorous. First of…
Is it Time to Rethink State Boards of Education?
/by Sandra Stotsky…a lot of flexibility to localities. Our standards were far less prescriptive on pedagogical method than the Common Core is. Our goal was to set a high bar and provide…
Patriot Ledger: TOM BIRMINGHAM: Plan to scrap MCAS is a race to the middle
/by Editorial Staff…English language arts, the so-called Common Core standards on which the tests are based would reduce the amount of classic literature, poetry and drama that Massachusetts students study by about…
Op-ed: Copernicus Inspires Us To Seek Out A Challenging Education
/by Jamie Gass…International Mathematics and Science Study testing. Sadly, in 2010 the commonwealth abandoned its proven math standards for $250 million in one-time federal grant money. With those dollars came nationalized Common…
Op-ed: A Frankenstein’s monster attacks school literature
/by Jamie Gass…the English-speaking world. But in 2010, Massachusetts took $250 million in one-time federal grant money to replace its proven English standards with inferior nationalized ones known as Common Core. These…
Will new classroom goals help or hurt SC students
/by Editorial Staffhttp://www.scnow.com/news/state/article_5ae567f3-6fbe-5ed2-a8b0-db3dee69cce7.html Top education advocates aren’t seeing eye-to-eye on a set of teaching standards already being implemented across South Carolina. In 2010 the state Education Board approved adopting the Common Core…
Study: After-School Programs Can Help Improve Flat or Declining Math Achievement
/by Editorial Staff…and Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Education. In 2010, Wurman served on the California Academic Content Standards Commission that evaluated the suitability of the Common Core standards for…
The Wrong Lessons in National Standards
/by Editorial Staff…about the effort to advance national (Common Core) standards. I’m sorry because I think I may have gotten some of the intentions of Common Core’s supporters wrong. Considering the heavy…
Fallout from election 2012 on education
/by Jim Stergios…to Hoosiers, they all feel that Coach Bennett’s decision to adopt Common Core shortened the free throw line on expectations for the kids in Indiana’s traditional public schools. … He’s,…
BPS’ all-in adoption of PARCC is bad for kids, and is illegal
/by Jim Stergios…PARCC grouping has dropped from 25 to nominally 13. Included in the remaining 13 “nominal” states are places like Louisiana, which are actively seeking to drop Common Core and PARCC….
Self-dealing among education officials
/by Editorial Staff…don’t find any of this troubling, then consider NewsCenter 5’s Sean Kelly report that in the middle of state deliberations over whether or not to adopt the Common Core standards,…
Dimming the state’s literary light
/by Jamie Gass…English standards and MCAS tests in favor of inferior nationalized Common Core and PARCC testing, which cut enduring fiction by 60 percent. The Baker administration could have easily ended Common…
What will adoption of national standards cost Massachusetts schools?
/by Jim Stergios…(the so-called Common Core), no one has done a solid cost estimate for what it will cost. Let me say that again: We have at the state and federal level…
Pioneer Institute Statement on MBAE PARCC/MCAS Study
/by Editorial Staff…deeply troubling pattern of conflicts of interest marking the commonwealth’s consideration of Common Core and PARCC. MBAE has accepted several hundred thousand dollars from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,…
Pioneer Statement on Next-Generation MCAS Announcement
/by Editorial Staff…served Massachusetts very well for nearly two decades. The test and the pre-Common Core standards were the key to Massachusetts’ leadership position that was forged by the 1993 Massachusetts Education…
Patriot Ledger: Changes in teaching leave Huck Finn out in the cold
/by Jamie Gass…“Common Core.” These new English standards include less than half as much classic literature and poetry than the Massachusetts standards they will replace. Our previous literature-rich standards served the commonwealth…
Wall Street Journal: Conservatives Oppose National Standards
/by Editorial Staff…sign on to Common Core’s math and English language arts standards to receive federal funding and NCLB waivers, a framework for common science standards produced by the congressionally chartered National…
Who you calling dumb?
/by Jim Stergios…Core. Finding that Common Core is inferior to the previous Massachusetts standards, likely violates three federal statutes, and will prove to be a $16 billion unfunded mandate, we have chosen…
Alabama Opposes National Education Standards
/by Editorial Staff…the consortia developing the Common Core assessments. And back in February legislators in South Carolina introduced a measure to pull their state out of the Common Core national standards. Governor…
Examining the Academic Achievement Decline in New England Prior to COVID-19
/by Matt Mulvey…with most others, adopted the Common Core curriculum in 2013, student performance began to decline. Each New England state was experiencing an improvement in 4th and 8th grade National Assessment…
Arne Duncan, fiction writer
/by Jim Stergios…in office is that it has been stagnant. An objective observer would note significant areas of decline: Since the adoption of Common Core in 2010, sampled national tests show fourth-grade…
Schizophrenia in the New York Times Editorial Office (by Sandra Stotsky)
/by Sandra Stotsky…the latest victim. On September 2, the NYT published his article titled “With Common Core, Fewer Topics but Covered More Rigorously.” Centered on Common Core math, the article implicitly praises…
Mass. schools must recommit to knowledge-based curriculum
/by Tom Birmingham…failed Common Core experiment and revert to its former, superior standards. But individual school districts can adopt a specific, content-rich, year-by-year elementary school curriculum like the Core Knowledge sequence that…
Moving the goalposts on NCLB
/by Editorial Staff…requirement by adopting new national standards and national assessments in July 2010. No news there, and not good news given the mediocrity of the Common Core national standards (if you’re…