The PARCC accommodations manual, now open for public comment, offers guidance and restrictions on who should be allowed to use accommodations on the new tests coming in 2014-15. Read Full Post >
On April 17, the Alabama Senate Education Committee voted to approve a bill requiring the state to drop the common core. Read Full Post >
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan urged those at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event to step up advocacy of the Common Core State Standards. Read Full Post >
Please understand that this is not a partisan issue. Democrats and Republicans are reaching across the aisle in Illinois and other states to fight side by side against the RTTT mandates and the Common Core Standards in the same way that Democrats and Republicans worked together to create NCLB and RTTT. The corporate middle of both parties has driven these mandates, it is up to the non corporate elements of the Democratic and Republican parties to join together in the true spirit of "we the people" to reject a national curriculum that has been mandated without constitutional due process or the consent of "the governed. Read Full Post >
As all educators know, the reading of non-fiction is supposed to be significantly increased as a result of the new Common Core (wanted to be national) Standards. It seems to me that the recently uncovered "Erasure Study" memo, written by investigator Sandy Sanford in 2009 makes a fine primary source document to be used as the basis for student inquiry. This memo has been hidden since it was first written. Its existence sheds light on the behavior of some of the nation's most well-known education reformers, including Michelle Rhee. Read Full Post >
A commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission argues that schools need more funding, and specific capacity goals, through the E-rate. Read Full Post >
As states implement common core standards, new markets are opening for education materials, according to panelists at a software and industry association gathering. Read Full Post >
A set of "publishers' criteria" aim to help publishers and buyers of high school math materials judge whether products adhere to the Common Core standards. Read Full Post >
Two bills seeking to weaken or eliminate the Common Core State Standards in South Dakota have fallen short. Read Full Post >
With her colleagues, Michelle Healy is spending the 2012-2013 school year crossing the country to identify successful practices from schools of every kind before her team designs and opens its own model public school in New York City. For the Of, By, For blog, she's also sharing some of those stories and how they relate to what she sees in each new episode of the 10-part video series, A Year at Mission Hill. Read Full Post >
