Abjure the core
Doug Lasken, writing on FlashReport, says it will cost California $1.6 billion to replace its current educational standards with the newly developed Common Core standards being pushed by President Obama. Lasken writes:
Doug Lasken, writing on FlashReport, says it will cost California $1.6 billion to replace its current educational standards with the newly developed Common Core standards being pushed by President Obama. Lasken writes:
Malcolm Gladwell takes apart the U.S. News & World Report college rankings. He clarifies the obvious: that the U.S. News rankings are self-fulfilling; the magazine's metrics prize prestige and its top-rated schools are the most prestigious.
Well, let's talk about a sobering effect?not only do we have to worry about increased teen pregnancy and children in poverty as well as
"The thing we said then, in looking at the business world, is that if you sit on [New York school data], you become the Enron of test scores, the Enron of graduation rates."* - Merryl H. Tisch, Chancellor of the Board of Regents
In?their continuing drive to ratchet up learning standards, New York State's education leaders?are now sounding the alarm?about high school diplomas. According to a new study, done for NY's State Ed department, fewer than half the kids in the state holding a diploma are ready for college.