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Curriculum & Instruction
Muddying the Waters on Common Core
Peter Cunningham responds to an anti-Common Core article in the New York Times
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Poor children need a hand up, not hospice
Mike asks Deborah the question: Does it "work"?
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A point-by-point rebuttal of today’s anti-Common Core op-ed in the Weekly Standard
Mike debunks another set of lies, half-truths, and misinformation from the Pioneer Institute
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A point-by-point rebuttal of today’s anti-Common Core op-ed in the Wall Street Journal
There are plenty of reasons to be against the Common Core, but the Pinoeer Institute's Jamie Gass and Charles Chieppo miss the mark completely
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Curriculum & Instruction
Am I a part of the cure...or the disease?
A question for folks on both sides of the education-reform debate
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Getting under the hood of the testing consortia
On Monday, we kick off By the Company It Keeps
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To close the 'opportunity gap,' we need to close the vocabulary gap
Mike Petrilli debates Deborah Meier on Bridging Differences
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Bill Bennett on the state of American education
On the thirtieth anniversary of "A Nation at Risk," Dr. Bennett spoke at the Fordham Institute on the state of American Education
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The RNC on the CCSSI, OMG!
Republicans make a colossal—but reversible—error on the Common Core
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Will the assessment consortia wither away?
The College Board and ACT have entered the ring
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The end of the testing consortia as we know it?
Alabama’s decision to drop out of both consortia and choose a battery of ACT exams is enormous
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Texas: Big, proud…and wimpy?
Lone Star State moves to lower its own standards
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Agitating, standards, charters, teachers, and widgets
Andy's picks, from Kansas City to CALDER
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
SIG, tests, and state legislative proposals
Andy Smarick's pick of the news
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Educator evals, assessments, closures, and authorizing
Keeping up with education headlines
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A conflicted conservative and online learning
Online and blended learning alter some of the most basic characteristics of traditional schooling—and the ripples extend much, much farther
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A few good reads
Andy Smarick's pick of recent education news
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
The progressive view of school choice
Options for students, not parents
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Children's museums and social-studies mush
The new National Children's Museum, like our kids' social-studies curriculum, doesn't teach much of anything
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
One last thing before you go…
Andy Smarick's pick of the news, from PARCC to Zuckerberg
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Solipsism generation
It isn't going to be easy for David Coleman and his fellow authors of the Common Core English/Language Arts standards to wean U.S. students off writing about themselves.
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Salman Khan, Luddites, Bill Buckley, and online content
The middle path to technology in education
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Social studies follies
The cumbersome, inscrutable title is the first clue that something is not right: “Vision for the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3): Framework for Inquiry in Social Studies State Standards.”
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A closer look at union strength
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute's recent study of teacher-union strength is an example of the institute's willingness to "get into the weeds" of standards
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The Kindergarten Canon: The 100 Best Children's Books
100 books every child should encounter by age five.
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The Diverse Schools Dilemma
Lots of parents favor sending their sons and daughters to diverse schools with children from a variety of racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. But can such schools successfully meet the educational needs of all those different kids? How do middle class children fare in these environments? Is there enough challenge and stimulation in schools that also struggle to help poor and immigrant children reach basic standards? Is there too much focus on test scores? And why is it so hard to find diverse public schools with a progressive, child-centered approach to education? These quandaries and more are addressed in this groundbreaking book by Michael J. Petrilli.
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