National Education Standards – A Confidence Game?
…done research on the key elements of national standards—academic quality, cost, and legality. In our report, The Road to a National Curriculum, Kent Talbert and Bob Eitel summarize how Arne…
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Spotlight on Civics and U.S. History
/by Editorial Staff…consistent decline in standardized test scores, things like the national — the NEAP scores, the nation’s report card, if you will — and then, state by state, when you look…
Obama imposing national school curriculum
/by Editorial Staff…national curriculum,” said the authors of the reported called “The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers.”…
National Education Standards – A Confidence Game?
/by Editorial Staff…done research on the key elements of national standards—academic quality, cost, and legality. In our report, The Road to a National Curriculum, Kent Talbert and Bob Eitel summarize how Arne…
The Learning Curve: National Education Podcast
/by Editorial Staff…National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Academy of Education. He is a graduate of St. John’s College (Annapolis) and received his PhD in History from the Johns Hopkins…
IS THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION VIOLATING FEDERAL LAW BY DIRECTING STANDARDS, TESTS, AND CURRICULA?
/by Editorial Staff…of the United States Department of Education. The Road to a National Curriculum The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the…
NEA: $26M to Advocacy Groups
/by Jim Stergios…National Parent Teachers Association – $5,000 National Partnership for Women and Families – $5,000 National Puerto Rican Coalition – $10,000 National Staff Development Council – $25,000 National Women’s Law Center…
Conflicts of interest in Mass’s adoption of national education standards
/by Editorial Staff…make a decision on whether to adopt national standards. It’s laid out in a 2010 departmental press release: The standards were also fully vetted, reviewed and approved by national organizations…
Andrew Campanella on National School Choice Week
/by Editorial Staff…big deal for you. And for me, it’s, we love national school choice week, and I know you’re having a beautiful national school choice week because you’re finally out of…
To Be a National Curriculum, or Not to Be a National Curriculum: More Fordham-Finn Flip Flopping
/by Jamie Gass…of a nationalized curriculum to accompany the nationalized standards, nationalized tests, and nationalized teacher evals being driven by those other stalwarts of the Party of Reagan — President Obama, Arne…
Study Finds Declining Student Achievement and Increased Harm to School Choice Since Common Core
/by Editorial StaffRead coverage of this report in The Daily Caller, Breitbart News, and The Federalist. Curriculum centralization has failed to improve international competitiveness—it’s time to re-think curriculum standards-based reform BOSTON –…
Why States Should Hop Off the National Standards Bandwagon
/by Editorial Staffhttp://blog.heritage.org/2012/04/23/why-states-should-hop-off-the-national-standards-bandwagon/ When “states signed on to common core standards, they did not realize…that they were transferring control of the school curriculum to the federal government,” said Sandra Stotsky, 21st Century…
Handwaving away opposition to the national standards
/by Editorial Staff…national tests, he skips over the fact that these assessments come with curricular materials and instructional practice guides—which are again illegal. 4. “National” is the right way to go. Let…
Conflicts of Interest in MA’s adoption of national standards
/by Jim Stergios…bankrolled the entire national standards effort (Fordham took $1 million from Gates to study and evaluate national standards). Hardly what one might call an “independent” evaluator.” Yet, that is who…
NEA's largesse from their disclosure report
/by Jim Stergios…– $5,000 National Association of Legislative and Political Specialists for Education – $13,019 National Baptist Voice – $5,950 National Black Caucus of State Legislators Labor Roundtable – $10,500 National Board…
The Core Conundrum
/by Editorial Staff…Coomon Core Curriculum, Fordham Institute, Kent Talbert, Pioneer Institute, Robert Eitel, South Carolina, The Road to a National Curriculum. Bookmark the permalink. Also seen in The Chronicle of Higher Education….
Indiana’s airball on national education standards
/by Jim Stergios…Benchmarks for Mathematics, the National Mathematic Advisory Panel Foundations for Success (NMAP), the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) Mathematics Framework 2009, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics…
STUDY ESTIMATES COST OF TRANSITION TO NATIONAL EDUCATION STANDARDS AT $16 BILLION
/by Editorial Staff…about national standards and assessments. Why Race to the Middle: First-Class State Standards Are Better than Third Class National Standards, Fair to Middling: A National Standards Progress Report, The Emperor?s…
Handwaving away opposition to the national standards
/by Jim Stergios…national tests, he skips over the fact that these assessments come with curricular materials and instructional practice guides—which are again illegal. 4. “National” is the right way to go. Let…
South Carolina Resisting the National Standards Push
/by Editorial Staffhttp://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/28/south-carolina-resisting-the-national-standards-push/ South Carolina legislators have introduced a measure to pull the Palmetto State out of the Common Core national standards. Senator Mike Fair, who introduced the measure, voiced his concerns…
National standards dissent and pep rallies
/by Jim Stergios…adoption of the new national standards as equivalent to the state’s nation-leading standards, noting the aspirations of the new national standards but avoiding concrete detail. The fact is that while…
Questioning the Convergence on National Standards
/by Jim Stergios…Institute, and the National Center on Education and the Economy, as well as two trade organizations (the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association) all told…
NEA dollars at work for whom?
/by Jim Stergios…Specialists for Education – $14,021 National Baptist Voice – $15,450 National Board for Professional Teaching Standards – $8,000 National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training – $10,000 National Coalition…
War Against the Core
/by Editorial Staff…U.S., advocates of a national curriculum have for years pointed to nations at the top of TIMSS and PISA rankings and argued that because those countries have national curriculums, a…
George Weigel Discusses Pope St. John Paul II for National Catholic Schools Week
/by Editorial Staff…though as you know, last week was National School Choice Week. It is National Catholic. Schools week this week, and it is also the beginning of February. So as you…
Rise of the Zune Monopolists
/by Jim Stergios…No matter that the arguments for it are flimsy: Nations with national curricula do better than ones without on international tests. Not true. The national standards raise the bar set…
Rumblings of an earthquake in national education policy?
/by Jim Stergios…of lead groups pushing states to adopt national standards, may find itself in deep trouble. In fact, Perry, as the head of the RGA, may force the National Governors Association,…
On national standards, you get what you pay for
/by Jim Stergios…national standards, they have to all appearances lined up their surrogates. Via two trade organizations, the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), the…
New Pioneer/Pacific Research Institute Report: Weak National Standards Basis for Weak National Tests
/by Editorial StaffNew Pioneer/Pacific Research Institute Report: Weak National Standards Basis for Weak National Tests Contact Jamie Gass at 617-723-2277 ext. 210 or jgass@pioneerinst.wpengine.com The Emperor’s New Clothes BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO – A…
Summary: The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers
/by Pioneer Institute…(USDOE) has placed the nation on the road to a national curriculum, according to a new Pioneer report written by Robert S. Eitel and Kent D. Talbert, two former counsels…