Commentary
Commentary
10.13.2014
Standards, Curriculum & Instruction
What's right about Common Core
Robert PondiscioI confess I’m somewhat bewildered by the passionate arguments over the Common Core State Standards. Getting in high dudgeon about K–12 learning standards, which say almost nothing about what kids do in school all day, makes no more sense to me than getting apoplectic about food-handling procedures, which I seldom think about when pushing my cart through the grocery store.
Commentary
10.13.2014
Arne Duncan's Office of Civil Rights: Six years of meddling
Michael J. PetrilliAt war with the “loose” part of “tight-loose” federalism. Michael J. Petrilli
Commentary
10.13.2014
Accountability & Testing
In defense of annual testing
Testing works. Federal intrusiveness and poorly designed interventions are the real problem. Andy Smarick