Kill NCLB?
Mr. Obama: Kill NCLB writes Jay Mathews in Class Struggle. Accountability will survive without the federal law, he writes. Instead, we should set “national standards — with a uniform national test” to...
View ArticleStandards at the core
Skeptics are giving surprisingly positive reviews to the Common Core State Standards Initiative’s proposed language arts and math standards, which are now available for review. Curriculum Matters...
View ArticleCommon standards, many opinions
Comments are pouring in on common core standards, reports Ed Week’s Catherine Gewertz. Chris Minnich, who’s leading the common-standards work for the Council of Chief State School Officers, told me...
View ArticleNational standards lock in mediocrity
California should reject national standards, which inevitably will be tied to national testing and a national curriculum, writes Jon Fleischman on Flash Report. . . . one-size-fits-all national...
View ArticleRace winners set low standards
Tennessee and Delaware, the first-round Race To The Top winners, set low standards for their students, concludes a new report on state proficiency standards by Paul Peterson and Carlos Xabel...
View ArticleThe case for common core standards
Common core standards, now adopted by 28 states and counting, are “remarkably strong” and vastly better than the standards in most states, write Checker Finn and Mike Petrilli of Fordham on National...
View ArticleNational standards: Good idea or good riddance?
Good riddance to new national standards, writes Washington Post columnist Jay Mathews, who’s a centrist voice in the education debate. Common Core Standards, adopted by more than 40 states and pushed...
View ArticleMishmash museum
The new National Children’s Museum in Washington D.C. is a “lame” and “boring,”, according to the Washington Post reviewer’s sons, six and eight years old. There was a giant crane, which they could...
View ArticleDo we want the feds to run our schools?
Without discussion or debate, the U.S. education system is being nationalized, writes Marc Tucker, who heads the National Center on Education and the Economy, in the Los Angeles Times. Historically,...
View ArticleWhy Common Core is doomed to fail
Common Core standards are doomed, writes Jay P. Greene. The political backlash “will undo or neuter Common Core.” With the U.S. Education Department, D.C.-based reform groups and state school chiefs on...
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