Questioning the Case for Nationalized Education Reform When my daughter was 5-years old, she asked, “How do the trees flap […]
Category: Common Core State Standards
California Committed to Move Forward with Common Core Tests As Planned
Last week, Education Week reported that nearly all of the key education officials in 40 states responding to a survey […]
An Early Look at Smarter Balanced Assessments
Sample tests aligned to the California Common Core State Standards can be viewed for grades 3-8 and 11 at http://www.smarterbalanced.org/pilot-test/. […]
ANOTHER STATE DROPS OUT OF PARCC
Is the summer of 2013 for Common Core what the summer of 2010 was for the Affordable Care Act? As […]
Posturing vs. Performing – Blame the Test
Lawrence Hardy’s article “An Epidemic of Cheating,” which appeared in the National School Boards Association’s (NSBA’s) magazine, takes a look […]
Year 3 of Implementing the Common Core State Standards: State Education Agencies’ Views on the Federal Role
This report, based on a winter/spring 2013 survey of 40 Common Core State Standards-adopting states, examines state education agency (SEA) […]