common core

QOD: Union Leadership Starting to Tilt Right

At the bottom of yesterday’s Sunday Leftovers is Andy Rotherham’s response to a post by Tim Daly of TNTP.  Daly…

11 years ago

Amplify (Cerf’s New Gig) and the Common Core

The Wall St. Journal reports that students at Ardsley High School in Westchester, NY, and also Norther Valley Regional School…

11 years ago

QOD: on the new “punching bag” in ed policy, otherwise known as the “Common Core”

The Common Core, writes Evan Stone, former elementary teacher and founder of Educators for Excellence, is "not a curriculum" and…

11 years ago

Christie’s Common Core Convictions Could Cost Him the Presidency

 My column today at WHYY Newsworks is about why I think that Christie can't win the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.Last…

11 years ago

Teachers are Getting Smarter; Can We Smarten Up Too?

Yesterday’s New York Times editorial section includes a column by  Frank Bruni regarding a partnership between the U.S. Department of…

11 years ago

NJ GOP Senators Need to Up Their Standards for Common Core Information

Speaking of Carolee Adams, president of the NJ chapter of the Eagle Forum (see post below), twelve NJ Republican senators,…

11 years ago

New WHYY Post: Why is Cory Booker Wimping Out on Common Core?

In my column today at WHYY Newsworks, I look at NJ's tightening senatorial race between Cory Booker and Steve Lonegan,…

11 years ago

Bergen County, NJ: Unleash Thy Servants From that Accursed Common Core

Here’s a bit of NJ weirdness: the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders) has issued a resolution “in opposition to…

11 years ago

Walter White has a new Batch of Blue: PARCC Tests

From Politico: WHAT’S NEXT FOR PARCC? — Fla. Gov. Rick Scott issued an executive order Monday saying he wanted out…

11 years ago

New Spotlight Column: Is NJ Overusing Data in Assessing Student Growth and Teacher Performance?

My column today at NJ Spotlight examines the conflict between those who fear that escalating use of data in evaluating…

11 years ago