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…of the “K-12” Common Core Standards will be released by the Common Core Standards Initiative on March 8 . They are being put out for public comment and posted at…
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Our Stand on Standards
/by Jim StergiosSeems our report and the release of the common core standards draft have set off a lot of interest in Massachusetts’ view, and especially in Pioneer’s take on the national…
Wurman & Stotsky skewer the proposed national standards
/by Jim StergiosIn the past days, the announcements by Minnesota and Virginia that they are most likely not going to adopt the common core standards drove giant holes right through the wall…
Worcester T&G: Keep nat'l standards voluntary
/by Jim Stergios…remain voluntary and advisory. Forcing a national standard onto states would be counterproductive. The release last week of draft standards by the Common Core State Standards Initiative may seem little…
U-Ark. Prof. Albert Cheng on Classical Education & School Choice
/by Editorial Staff…as I watched that and listened to it, my own take was that, The US Department of Education is a sideshow. I think that [00:04:00] common, the whole common core…
State-Based Education Reform Needs Tough Common Standards: View
/by Editorial Staff…standards. Conservatives are adamantly opposed to federally administered benchmarks, and many have promoted the Common Core State Standards initiative, a laudable project led largely by governors of the 45 states…
Schools and the conventional wisdoms
/by Jim Stergios…[Stotsky] and four other members of the [Common Core] Validation Committee declined to sign off on Common Core’s standards. Governor Bush’s embrace of national standards and tests has cost him…
Dr. Adrian Mims on The Calculus Project & STEM
/by Editorial Staff…and major foundations. I was in the legislature at that time, so I’ll include policymakers. [00:25:34] Alisha: We’re all pushing common core math national standards, which ultimately most states adopted….
And now VA takes a pass on national standards
/by Jim Stergios…not have a desire to substitute the common core standards for our Standards of Learning.”… “We are 15 years into a successful standards-based reform,’’ Pyle said. “There is no discussion…
Is the Commissioner of Education Complying with the Law?
/by Editorial StaffTwenty years after the passage of the landmark Massachusetts education reform law, how did the Bay State get to a place where it is unclear whether the Commonwealth’s Department of…
Arne Duncan goes DC
/by Jim Stergios…for K-12 schools to coerce states to adopt the standards proposed by the Common Core State Standard Initiative. So, essentially, the federal government has decided that it needs a takeover…
Self-dealing among education officials
/by Jim Stergios…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, Massachusetts…
Rise of the Zune Monopolists
/by Jim Stergios…the Gates Foundation and the Common Core State Standards Initiative. It’s particularly unfortunate that public education is the setting for this circumvention of democracy and the public trust. Even as…
NY Times decades behind on standards
/by Jim Stergios…high standards. States have led the way, and the federal government would be in error, and states would have to be stupid, to let these new proposed common core standards…
National standards dissent and pep rallies
/by Jim Stergios…have adopted the so-called Common Core. The Lone Star state released draft state math standards that are built on the foundation of Massachusetts’ now defunct standards and those in place…
Questioning the Convergence on National Standards
/by Jim Stergios…data provided to The Washington Post by the foundation. The Fordham Institute has accepted more than $1.4 million from the Gates Foundation, including nearly $960,000 to conduct Common Core reviews….
Mid-terms and the national education debate
/by Jim Stergios…adopted Common Core’s first really low-quality draft (e.g., Kentucky). The siren’s song of federal grants at a time of state fiscal crisis is mesmerizing. The problem for the feds is…
On Finn and Linn
/by Jim StergiosChecker Finn has a great blog at the Flypaper, which notes the “heavier and heavier burdens” of the common standards project of the National Governors Association (NGA) and Council of…
AEI’s Dr. Diana Schaub on the Founders, Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, & Civics
/by Editorial Staff…movement you look at abolitionism in [00:21:00] Europe the reformation movement in Europe, he said there were a core group of people who became the center or the core. And…
Halloween, Headless Horsemen and Literature in our Schools
/by Jim Stergios…the Common Core State Standards Initiative for national standards (the Gates Foundation, Achieve, Inc., CCSSO and the Fordham Institute) worked with our current state leaders to throw their flaming pumpkin…
Controlling Education from the Top
/by Emmett McGroartyThe pressure exerted by the Department for the states to fall in line on Common Core was enormous. The Department dangled Race to the Top funding during a time of…
Op-ed: Teaching children assures that we will never forget
/by Jamie Gass…need to learn Wiesel’s wisdom, but they largely don’t. His book Night is not an “exemplar text” in the nationalized K-12 standards, Common Core. Further, in 2014 American students’ performance…
Column: The last of ‘The Last of the Mohicans’
/by Jamie Gass…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…
They're national, not state standards
/by Jim Stergios…released today is entitled: STATEMENT FROM SECRETARY REVILLE REGARDING COMMON CORE NATIONAL STANDARDS and begins Today, we will receive the recently updated draft of the Common Core National Standards. Our…
Disappointing piece from Dave Driscoll in the Globe
/by Jim StergiosFormer MA education commissioner David Driscoll opined today in the Globe that we should just move ahead with the Common Core standards. Uh, how about no. His is a pretty…
Decision time on extended learning
/by Editorial Staff…is choice options have been expanded beyond Commonwealth charter schools (CCS), which are highly flexible schools that operate without the requirement of teachers unions and oversight of local school committees….
9 Signs of Academic Rigor in English Standards (by Sandra Stotsky)
/by Sandra Stotsky…Magee at the Fordham Institute think Common Core’s English language arts standards are more rigorous than Idaho’s or many other states’ previous standards? We don’t know because they don’t tell…
On national standards, you get what you pay for
/by Jim Stergios…in May (The Emperor’s New Clothes). Our analysis of the final (June 2010) proposed standards will be out soon and give a systematic judgment about whether the final Common Core…
Advice to the President and Arne Duncan
/by Jim Stergios…opted for a “top down” approach, with Race to the Top pushing state compliance with federally defined state reforms. These included not yet field tested Common Core standards, not yet…
Johns Hopkins’ Ashley Berner on Educational Pluralism & Democracy
/by Editorial Staff…after Race to the Top, Common Core, and two national testing consortia. Why do we struggle so much with basic academic quality? I know that’s a broad question, but Ashley:…