A primer on Common Core–aligned assessments
A brief review of EducationFirst's take on PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments
A brief review of EducationFirst's take on PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments
Our slim new book Knowledge at the Core: Don Hirsch, Core Knowledge, and the Future of the Common Core has three large aims. First, it pays tribute to three decades of scholarship and service to American education by E. D. (Don) Hirsch, Jr., author of Cultural Literacy (and three other prescient books on education reform) and founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation.
As the Common Core debate rages on in blogs and statehouses, educators are getting on with the business of put
Pop quiz! Which of the following statements is in the Common Core State Standards?(a) Through extensive reading of stories, dramas, poems, and myths from diverse cultures and different time periods, students gain literary and cultural knowledge.