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Common Core: Threat or menace?
“Six years after Common Core’s debut,” its critics “have produced enough books to collapse a sturdy bookshelf,” writes Fordham’s Robert Pondiscio. However, most “traffic in fear mongering and paranoid...
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Ohio may lower graduation requirements
Ohio raised its graduation requirements, promising graduates would be ready for college and careers. Now the state Board of Education is considering lowering requirements amid fears that one third of...
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In Raising Kings: A Year of Love and Struggle at Ron Brown College Prep, a three-part series by NPR and Education Week, Cory Turner reports on the first year of Washington, D.C. high school designed...
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Orange is the new red
Orange is the new red for California schools, writes New America’s Conor Williams in The 74. Twice as many schools fell in the bottom (red) tier of the state’s Trivial Pursuit-inspired accountability...
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The high cost of cheap diplomas
“Making graduation too easy” doesn’t just undermine “the motivations of students (and teachers),” writes Robert Slavin, who directs the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins and...
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What’s proficient? It’s every state for itself
Once upon a time, 45 states adopted Common Core standards and exams — either the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) or Smarter Balanced — writes Tracy Dell’Angela...
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How Core kids learn reading, writing
Fordham’s Reading and Writing Instruction in America’s Schools looks at how teaching has changed in the Common Core era. Middle and high school teachers report students are better at citing evidence...
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‘Standards-based’ grading is a fraud
Progressive educators are pushing “standards-based” grading, also known as “mastery grading,” writes Auguste Meyrat, an English teacher in Texas, in Quillette. It’s a way to inflate grades, lower...
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Dems must stop defending status quo
To win parents’ support, Democrats must stop defending the educational status quo, argues Will Marshall, president and founder of the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), on The Hill. School reform and...
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