Losing out on big potential
Earlier this week, the New York Times featured an editorial on gifted education, noting that even our best students were in the middle of the pack in the recent PISA results.
Earlier this week, the New York Times featured an editorial on gifted education, noting that even our best students were in the middle of the pack in the recent PISA results.
Occam’s Razor is the well-known principle that “among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected.” Keep that in mind as various pundits hypothesize about why the U.S.
This valuable paper from the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings sounds an important alarm: “The danger is that grade inflation, the often discussed phenomenon of students receiving higher and higher grades for mediocre academic achievement, has been joined by course inflation.
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Despite the tireless marriage-wrecking efforts of Common Core opponents and their acolytes and funders, few states that initially pledged their troth to these rigorous new standards for English and math are in divorce mode.
New York made education headlines last week, as its public schools reported substantially lower test scores than in previous years. The cause of the drop?
A glimpse of the latest Ohio education headlines
The Center for Education Policy recently released a three-part series of reports reviewing the Common Core State standards implementation with focuses on the federal role, state progress and challenges, and teacher preparation, training, and assessments for the new standards.
The collective “we” in education is currently in tatters.
Dr. Judy Hennessey, superintendent of Deca Prep, a K-6 elementary school, discusses Common Core.
As states and schools get ready for Common Core implementation, they had better prepare for higher quality education for both students and teachers.
The Washington Post profiled Josh Powell, a homeschooled young man, who—having never written an essay or learned that South Africa was a country—had to take several years of rem
More is more, and it doesn’t stop at math
Ohio’s legislators must reject House Bill 237, which seeks to void the State Board of Education’s decision to adopt the Common Core academic standards in English language arts and math.
The power of high expectations
There are scads of misinformation being tossed about when it comes to the Common Core Academic Standards.
A better approach to “affirmative action”
The NGSS gave undue prominence to scientific skills and practices, ultimately underemphasizing content knowledge
Those pesky facts, always getting in the way
New York City’s graduation rate dipped very slightly in 2012—information that was
How do Ohio’s science standards stack up, in comparison to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)?
According to the Times, ability grouping is back, after being unfairly stigmatized in th
Viewing education through the prism of Big Data
Education Trust discovers high achievers
The CMSD school board will vote tomorrow night to approve the hiring of up to nine TFA members.
Peter Cunningham responds to an anti-Common Core article in the New York Times
A response to Jay Greene
Two steps forward, two steps back
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed legislation last week that places a one-year moratorium on new virtual charter schools outside Chicago and directs a state commission to study the effects and costs of virtual charters.