The Role of Common Standards in the New ESEA
A Senate hearing the other day was something of a lovefest for the common-core standards.
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May 04, 2010
May 04, 2010
Race to Top Test Competition: Who's in the Game?
Remember that other Race to the Top competition? The one that will dole out $350 million for development and implementation of assessments aligned to common standards? Well, we have our first official indication of who's going to apply for that money. Those of you wonky enough to have followed ever...
May 04, 2010
Common-Standards Writers Speak: Chapter 2
We don't get a chance very often to hear from the folks who are leading the writing of the common-core standards. Just a couple weeks ago, David Coleman (English/language arts) and Jason Zimba (math) discussed the project at length at a forum here in Washington. Now, excerpts from video interviews w...
April 28, 2010
State-by-State Flashcards on the Common Standards
I don't know about you, but I've still got a student living under my roof, so I see flashcards in use from time to time at my kitchen table. (Yes, even in this tech-heavy age, even at the high school level, some of her teachers suggest that students memorize certain things by making flashcards.) Th...
April 28, 2010
The Financial Ripple Effect of Common Standards
We've talked before about the effect that common standards and assessments could have on the publishing industry (see a blog post here and a story here). Today we have one more peek into those possibilities. In a conference call yesterday to discuss first-quarter earnings for this year, McGraw-Hill...
April 26, 2010
Should All Students Take Algebra 2? Who Should Decide?
If all students shouldn't be required to take Algebra 2, who will decide for them, and what will those implications be?
April 13, 2010
How Much Do Career- and College-Readiness Overlap?
It's a hot topic now: It's no longer enough to just graduate from high school. Students have to be sure that their high school education actually prepares them for college or good jobs. (If you thought that was obvious, you were ahead of a lot of folks, who, um, didn't.) It's popular to say everyon...
April 08, 2010
One Math Professor's Take on the Common Standards
To carry on in the spirit of a couple recent blog posts (here and here), where I've linked to reactions from a variety of folks to the common standards, here are some thoughts from Bert Fristedt, a math professor at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and former member of the National Mathematic...
April 07, 2010
Competition Narrowing in 'Race to the Common Test'
Race to the Top assessment consortia merge into three groups.
April 05, 2010
More Feedback on Common Standards Math Section
The public-comment period for the proposed common standards has closed. At some point soon, we will get a summary of the 5,000-plus comments the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association received on the K-12 standards. In the meantime, as a continuation of my blo...
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