Fewer, Clearer, Higher: How the Common Core State Standards Can Change Classroom Practice
“Fewer, clearer, higher”: These were the words that guided the crafting of the Common Core State Standards.
“Fewer, clearer, higher”: These were the words that guided the crafting of the Common Core State Standards.
For a decade, the nonprofit Institute for Innovation in Public Choice (IIPSC) has helped the cities of New York, Boston, Denver, and New Orleans bring order to the Wild West of school choice, using the one-two punch of economic theory and custom software.
I’m halfway through an ambitious research project, in which I examine how other countries educate their high-ability kids in the hope that we might pick up tips that would prove useful in improving the woeful state of “gifted education” in the U.S.
Poland’s gains in mathematics and science on the 2012 PISA assessments made big news in the United States. The impressive achievements by fifteen-year-old Polish youngsters contrast starkly with the scores of American youngsters. U.S.
America’s approach to the education of children with disabilities is antiquated, costly, and ineffective. “Special education” as we know it is broken—and repainting the surface won’t repair it. It cries out for a radical overhaul.
A House committee hearing on the Common Core lasts until 1:00 in the morning.
The performance of Fordham-sponsored schools for the 2012-13 school year.
Welcome to the new Common Core kerfuffle.
The Tennessee Charter School Center (TCSC) is out with a terrific new report on Nashville’s schools landscape.