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An ode to Common Core kindergarten standards
This post originally appeared in a slightly different form at Psychology Today.
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Dual enrollment course content and instructor quality
The pros and cons of college courses in high school. Michael Brickman
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Standards, Curriculum & Instruction
The central problem with Jason Riley's argument
We at Fordham are big fans of Jason Riley, a Wall Street Journal columnist who just joined the team at the Manhattan Institute.
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Standards
One size fits most, even in the suburbs
Some progressive parents will never embrace Common Core. And that’s OK. Michael J. Petrilli
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Curriculum & Instruction, Standards
Is Common Core too hard for kindergarten?
There’s no such thing as too much, too soon in reading. Robert Pondiscio
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Curriculum & Instruction, Standards
Common Core: Lessons learned from a year of debate
Revisiting the Common Core debate in Ohio
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Standards
Nine questions: What does it even mean to oppose the Common Core?
Some queries for 2016 presidential contenders. Michael J. Petrilli
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Advice to Republican leaders: Don't back down on high education standards
Editor's note: This post was originally published in a slightly different form on the Daily Caller.
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Tennessee embraced Common Core for a reason
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form in The Tennessean.
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Model Citizens
Arizona makes passing the U.S. citizenship test a graduation requirement. Other states should too. Robert Pondiscio
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Standards, Curriculum & Instruction
Carmen Fariña's war on evidence
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form in the Daily News and City Journal.
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Stay the course or turn the page?
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form at RegBlog.
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Standards
When the standard algorithm is the only algorithm taught
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form on the Tools for the Common Core Standards blog.
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Standards, Curriculum & Instruction
2015: The year of curriculum-based reform?
Some of ed reform’s leading lights finally see that what kids learn makes a difference. Robert Pondiscio
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Standards
Common Core State Standards aren't so easy to replace
Crying “Dump it!” might be good politics. But any high standards will look a lot like Common Core. Michael J. Petrilli and Michael Brickman
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Standards, Curriculum & Instruction
The missing link between standards and instruction
Previously, I posted about the perils of applying standards-driven instruction to reading classrooms.
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Curriculum & Instruction, Standards
Petrilli’s Christmas present
Just in time for Christmas, my Fordham colleague Mike Petrilli has left a present under the tree for inquisitive children and busy parents who don’t think the sky will fall if the kids get a little screen time now and again (it won’t).
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Standards, Accountability & Testing
What the Dickens! 2014 in Education Reform
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Michelle Lerner, Robert Pondiscio, and Alyssa Schwenk
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Standards, Accountability & Testing, Curriculum & Instruction
The reading paradox: How standards mislead teachers
You can’t teach reading the way you teach other subjects. Kathleen Porter-Magee
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Standards, Curriculum & Instruction
Ten rules for teaching reading with prior knowledge
[Editor's note: This is part two of a multi-part series on the use of prior knowledge in literacy. It originally appeared in a slightly different form at Tim Shanahan's blog, Shanahan on Reading.
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Standards, Curriculum & Instruction
Prior knowledge: Can we really level the playing field?
[Editor's note: This is part one of a multi-part series on the use of prior knowledge in literacy. It originally appeared in a slightly different form at Tim Shanahan's blog, Shanahan on Reading.]
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Standards, Accountability & Testing
A five-point plan to resuscitate Catholic schools
Opportunities abound if only Catholic schools will seize them. by Chester E. Finn, Jr.
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Standards, Curriculum & Instruction
Responding to critics of Common Core math in the elementary grades
Their criticisms don’t add up. Robert Pondicio and Kevin Mahnken
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Ten things to know about the 2014 elections
There’s a wonderfully apt saying about why debates in the U.S.
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Charter Schools, Standards
Last night's implications for education reform
Get ready for another “Year of School Choice.” Michael J. Petrilli
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Charter Schools, Standards, Accountability & Testing
(What) Do Americans really think about education?
Joe Sixpack: You’re not paying attention. And much of what you think you know is wrong. Morgan Polikoff
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Accountability & Testing, Curriculum & Instruction, Standards
Let's tell the truth: High-stakes tests damage reading instruction
Accountability works. But not in reading, which isn’t a subject or a skill. Robert Pondiscio
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Standards, Curriculum & Instruction
What's right about Common Core
I 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.
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Accountability & Testing, Standards, Charter Schools
Time for a Reboot
Ed reform is dead. Long live ed reform. Chester E. Finn, Jr.
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Standards, Curriculum & Instruction
How to kill reading achievement
There’s more to Common Core than “close reading.” Robert Pondiscio
