Common Core implementation: Who should do what?
Everyone knows that there's lots to be done in order for the Common Core standards to impact what actually happens in the classroom. Here's an ?Implementation To-Do List,?
Everyone knows that there's lots to be done in order for the Common Core standards to impact what actually happens in the classroom. Here's an ?Implementation To-Do List,?
Today, Fordham released a new paper by Checker and me: Now What? Imperatives and Options for Common Core Implementation and Governance. Everyone knows that the Common Core standards won't implement themselves, but unless they are adopted in the classroom, nothing much will change.
?We have spent a lot of time in the last two years looking at ourselves in a mirror, trying to figure out what we've done right and what we've done wrong, and we're trying to reform.'' Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers
If you think you had some rough patches in middle school, at least you're not this girl.?
Education Week's Alyson Klein supplies an informative overview of upcoming, education-related ballot measures. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
Hoover Institution Fellow Eric Hanushek writes in today's Wall Street Journal that there is no war on teachers. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
It was over a year in the making ? not planning, just making a date: ?A Special Board of Education Meeting devoted to ?board communication.?
Edu-gossip surrounding Michelle Rhee is rampant nowadays. The newest of the big headlines: She might be heading to New Jersey.