common core

QOD: Badass Teachers Say AFT Wimped Out on Common Core

The American Federation of Teachers finished up its annual convention yesterday. Highlights were a vote of confidence in the Common…

10 years ago

QOD: The Politics of the Common Core

From today's New York Times:Perhaps no issue, though, better illustrates how much Washington-style polarization has seeped into statehouses as education…

10 years ago

Guest Post from NJ Chamber of Commerce re: Career Readiness and Benefits of Common Core

I rarely post guest columns, but here's a good one that flew threw the transom. It's by Dana Egreczky, a…

10 years ago

QOD: LA Sup John White on Jindal’s Quest to Quit the Common Core

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is trying mightily to pull his state from both the Common Core State Standards and one…

10 years ago

Update on N.J. Senate Bill to Delay PARCC Testing

Yesterday NJ Spotlight published my column about the politics behind Senate bill 2154, which would establish an "Education Task Force"…

10 years ago

Is the Common Core a Bill Gates-led Conspiracy?

Robert Rothman at the Alliance for Excellent Education responds to conspiracy theorists who maintain that the Common Core State Standards…

10 years ago

Union Leader Karen Lewis and Right-Winger Columnists Concur on the Common Core

You know things have gotten weird when Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers Union, and George Will, stalwart conservative…

11 years ago

Common Core as Scapegoat for, well, Everything

Today’s New York Times features an article that describes how students are exposed to less of the writing of James…

11 years ago

QOD: A Veteran Teacher Talks About the Common Core Backlash

 Michelle Morrissey in "By 'Common' We Mean Equity"  at TNTP:When the Common Core State Standards emerged, it was both a…

11 years ago

QOD: Cerf Pulls No Punches

Chris Cerf’s parting shot, addressed to NJ school leaders, addresses NJEA’s increasingly assertive campaign against new standardized testing, teaching evaluations,…

11 years ago