UK’s Charles Moore on Lady Margaret Thatcher & Cold War Leadership
…what I’m thinking about. I am just shocked by high. Attention. One of the issues that I think is really important is getting a lot of other issues, national, international…
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Common Core Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade
/by Editorial Staff…racing to the top nationally; we’re already there. Adopting the national standards slows us in the real competition – the one between Massachusetts and countries with the world’s best education…
Don’t Count Your Chickens Before Elections: Tony Bennett’s Defeat in Indiana
/by Jim Stergios…EdWeek’s “Leadership Forum” sent an email invitation entitled “Save the Date: Road Maps to Common Core Success in March 2013.” I invite you to attend Road Maps to Common Core…
AEI’s Robert Pondiscio on E.D. Hirsch, Civic Education, & Charter Public Schools
/by Editorial Staff…wrote. Good piece in national affairs about how to restore trust and public institutions, really public schooling. For some of our listeners, they may not be aware of national affairs….
NYU’s Dr. Arthur Levine on Higher Education’s Future & Improving K-12 Teacher Preparation
/by Editorial Staff…of Higher Education at New York University, President Emeritus of Teachers College, Columbia University, and President Emeritus of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Levine has written 13 books, including…
Palin Was A Prophet About Obama’s Education Takeover
/by Editorial Staffhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/04/26/palin_was_a_prophet_about_obamas_education_takeover_113966.html Sarah Palin was the first to recognize the problem: By participating in President Obama’s signature education initiative, the Common Core Standards, Alaska would lose control over its own curriculum….
Study Finds Poetry Slighted in Common Core English Standards
/by Editorial Staff…How Common Core’s ELA Standards Place College Readiness at Risk; Common Core Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade; The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common…
Accountability Overboard: Massachusetts poised to toss out the nation’s most successful reforms
/by Editorial Staff…some of Patrick’s speeches. More recently, Patrick chaired the platform committee for the Democratic National Convention that nominated Obama. But we can only hope their similarities don’t extend to education…
New Study Suggests Remedies for Common Core Literature Deficit
/by Editorial Staff…the Pacific Research Institute, Pioneer released a research paper, The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers,…
February a Month to Remember (or Forget) in National K-12 Standards Debate
/by Editorial Staffhttp://www.ediswatching.org/2012/02/february-a-month-to-remember-or-forget-in-national-k-12-standards-debate/ Last spring I told you about a growing movement to oppose the Common Core standards and accompanying assessments, as well as the momentum toward a national curriculum. Well, a…
NYT Best Seller Dr. Kate Clifford Larson on Fannie Lou Hamer & the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
/by Editorial Staff…curriculum guides, public history, initiatives, tour guides, and numerous publications. She all has that under her belt. Dr. Larson has appeared on local national and international television, including personal favorites,…
Rutgers Prof. Paul Israel on Thomas Edison, Inventions, & American Patents
/by Editorial Staff…know, you and I will both be at the national summit on education later this week, which is exactly. And I’m very much looking forward to that and it eager…
Don't give up pole position on standards!
/by Jim Stergios…to use the national standards as a floor, or simply to offer financial incentives for states to improve on recognized national and international assessment vehicles. Said it once, twice, 30…
If the feds pay, the states will play
/by Jim Stergios…on paper to adopting the national assessments. Sigh. Then there is the question of whether national standards can realistically be considered voluntary with federal money in the balance. I suppose…
Easthampton High Scores A National Educational Victory During The COVID-19 Pandemic
/by Tom BirminghamThis op-ed originally appeared in WGBH News. Since COVID-19 arrived, the bad news seems unending and recently released scores for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) civics test were…
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…
The Education Writers Association casts its narrowing gaze on Boston, May 1-3
/by Richard Phelps…next week for its annual “National Seminar”. The Education Writers Association’s (EWA’s) national seminars introduce thousands of journalists to sources of information and expertise. Many sessions feature journalists talking with…
Mr. Secretary, Open this Road!
/by Steve Poftak…road tolling would be a priority project. As transponders drop in price, they will become more pervasive (despite some objections) and the utility of open-road tolling will only increase. Also,…
Mass. schools must recommit to knowledge-based curriculum
/by Tom Birmingham…it adopted weaker English and math standards known as Common Core. To get back on track, Massachusetts must reform its school- and district-level curriculum to emphasize imparting a shared body…
Study: Common Core ELA Standards Will Further Harm U.S. History Instruction
/by Editorial Staff…“level the playing field.” Coleman is now president of the College Board, which has issued a new Advanced Placement (A.P.) U.S. History curriculum. The College Board’s A.P. curriculum is a…
Lowell Sun: Taking Huck Finn Out of Curriculum a Classic Disaster
/by Jamie Gass…isn’t included in national K-12 education standards that have been adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia. Twain’s masterpiece isn’t the only casualty of the Massachusetts Board of…
Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise: Taking Huck Finn Out of Curriculum a Classic Disaster
/by Jamie Gass…isn’t included in national K-12 education standards that have been adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia. Twain’s masterpiece isn’t the only casualty of the Massachusetts Board of…
Fall River Herald News: Common Core Takes Classics Out of Curriculum
/by Jamie Gass…isn’t included in national K-12 education standards that have been adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia. Twain’s masterpiece isn’t the only casualty of the Massachusetts Board of…
AEI’s Ian Rowe on School Leadership, Civic Education, & Upward Mobility
/by Editorial Staff…Baccalaureate high schools opening in the Bronx in 2022; the chairman of the board of Spence-Chapin, a nonprofit adoption services organization; and the co-founder of the National Summer School Initiative….
Linda Chavez on Hispanic Immigration, Assimilation, & Civic Education in America
/by Editorial Staff…students, pointing to the wide variation in socioeconomic and academic achievement levels among those from different Spanish-speaking countries. She makes the case for a more flexible, broad, skills-based national immigration…
What will adoption of national standards cost Massachusetts schools?
/by Jim StergiosIt’s always struck me as odd that with all the talk about federal money coming from the federal Race to the Top effort to support state implementation of national standards…
MetroWest Daily: Not these national standards
/by Jim Stergios…The process by which draft national standards have been developed leaves the distinct impression that the U.S. Department of Education, National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School…
Cracks in the national standards consensus
/by Jim Stergios…Scott advanced with State Representative Daniel Huberty a bill that would prohibit Texas from adopting the national standards or national assessments. That same day, they rolled out the most ambitious…
U of SC Prof. Jennifer Frey on National Catholic Schools Week & Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction
/by Editorial Staffhttps://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chtbl.com/track/G45992/mp3.ricochet.com/2022/02/TheLearningCurve_JenniferFrey_revised.mp3 As we celebrate National Catholic Schools Week, “The Learning Curve” co-host Cara Candal talks with Dr. Jennifer Frey, an associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina…
2020 Annual Report
/by Editorial Staff…remote learning resources guide drawn from hundreds of materials across the curriculum and curated by PioneerEducation Director Jamie Gass. Pioneer devoted numerous episodes of its The Learning Curve national education…