Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma participated in a discussion with School Leader Tracy McDaniel and students and at KIPP Academy in Oklahoma City in April. | Credit Associated Press By Jonathan Martin | Originally Published The New York. April 19, [...]
A Problem With the Common Core By Elizabeth Phillips | Originally Published at The New York Times. April 9, 2014 I’D like to tell you what was wrong with the tests my students took last week, but I can’t. Pearson’s $32 million contract with New York State [...]
Stamford Charter School for Excellence applicant Charlene Reid listens to public comment in front of the State Board of Education in Hartford, Conn. on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Photo: Brian A. Pounds | Buy this photo By Wendy Lecker | Originally Published at StamfordAdvocate. April 4, 2014 [...]
Photograph; David Rapheal, Brooklyn borough assessment implementation director for New York schools, at a meeting on the opt-out movement on Tuesday | Credit Anthony Lanzilote for The New York Times By Ginia Bellafante | Originally Published at The New York Times. March 28, 2014 In the coming [...]
Photograph; Second grade students at Horseshoe Trails Elementary study typing in anticipation of new Common Core standards. Photo by David Jolkovski/Washington Post On the subject of Common Core State Standards [CCSS] we have heard from mothers and fathers. Teachers too weigh in. There is one agreement. Political [...]
Illustration; Credit Giacomo Bagnara A Common Core for All of Us The New York Times. March 22, 2014 I COULDN’T get a cab. A sketchy-looking guy hunkering around the entrance of the Grand Hyatt in San Diego showed me his bicycle. “Climb on, lady,” he [...]
Graphic; Creativity by Zyari By Timothy Egan | Originally Published at The New York Times. March 21, 2014 Here’s how John Lennon wrote “Nowhere Man,” as he recalled it in an interview that ran just before he was murdered in 1980: After working five hours trying to [...]
By Karen Wolfe | Originally Published at LA Progressive. March 19, 2014 Few if any political issues have brought together liberals and the tea party to the extent that the Common Core State Standards have. How can something be equally objectionable to political opposites? Tea partiers ideologically [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. March 4, 2014 Teaching literacy has been my career and life for over thirty years now. Having grown up in the South with my own peculiar grasp of so-called standard English, I feel fortunate to [...]
