It is time to refocus on building competency-based schools that work over time rather than forcing top-down laws that end in superficial changes in policy and no change in student outcomes, says ...
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More than a third of the 30 biggest school districts in the United States are not using any math or English/language arts curricula that are rated highly for alignment to state standards, a new s...
Subject matter expertise is no substitute for pedagogical competency.
The funny thing is this: while Reformsters and policy-makers and researchers write and rewrite standards, benchmarks and assessments (or change the names of state standards to avoid the taint of ...
Oregon is the latest state to consider adding an ethnic studies curriculum.
Assessing students is a serious business and the better we get at it, the more students get out of it, enabling them to start doing it for themselves becoming more independent learners. We simply...
A national set of revised professional goals for school principals are pushing some states and universities to rethink and redesign preparation.
A recent study from the RAND Corporation finds that teachers in the state of Louisiana tend to teach and think about their work in ways that are more aligned with the Common Core State Standards ...
Wyoming's new science benchmarks are similar to the Next Generation Science Standards.
Perhaps it's time to reframe our conversations about standards to give local communities more power to determine what it means for their children to be well prepared for life after high school.
A national value for a highly educated population to preserve our democracy and a highly prepared workforce to sustain our national economy gives the federal government an interest in our work th...
Nearly all math and language arts teachers in common-core states rely on materials they developed or curated, RAND surveys have found.
Public school teachers are divided on the merits of the Common Core State Standards, with 44 percent having a negative opinion of the shared academic goals and another 40 percent of teachers favo...
In spite of being wary of excessive standardization, Dave Powell questions why elected officials are rejecting the common core.
Revving up the quality of curricular standards doesn't necessarily increase overall student achievement, according to a study.
A report argues that the Common Core State Standards may not improve student achievement.
Standards-based reform holds that that all students are capable of meeting high expectations.
States are busily comparing their own standards to the common core.
Standards-based reform holds that that all students are capable of meeting high expectations.