Kindergarten, play and standards
Teachers are blaming new standards for taking the joy out of kindergarten, writes Deborah Kenny, a charter school founder in New York City, in the Washington Post. Kindergartners should learn by...
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The bigotry of low (teacher) expectations
Common Core Standards didn’t invent effective teaching, writes Julie Greenberg in The bigotry of low (teacher) expectations in the National Council on Teacher Quality’s blog. She objects to step 5 in...
View ArticleConservatives can like the Common Core
Conservatives should support the Common Core standards, write Kathleen Porter-Magee and Sol Stern, who describe themselves as “education scholars at two right-of-center think tanks” (Fordham and the...
View ArticleTeachers hit computer-scored writing exams
New tests aligned to the new common standards will ask students to do more writing and provide quick feedback to teachers on their students’ skills. But that’s only cost effective, if students’ writing...
View ArticleCore standards: It’s not about the benjamins
Democratic state senators in Pennsylvania have come out against Common Core State Standards “without adequate state financial resources,” reports Ed Week. It’s not about the benjamins, responds Marc...
View ArticleIt’s not PC or censorship
Common Core State Standards “and standardized testing are trying to make teachers into KAPOs, a Nazi concentration camp prisoner who was given privileges if they would supervise work gangs,” wrote a...
View ArticleJindal and the irony of local control
Governor Jindal is determined to pull Louisiana out of the Common Core. He wants “Louisiana standards and a Louisiana test” for Louisiana kids. But here’s the rub: Louisiana’s top education officials...
View ArticleBack to Balanced Literacy in NYC?
To those familiar with the history of New York City schools, this should come as no surprise: NYC schools chancellor Carmen Fariña is pushing for a return to Balanced Literacy, which she has long...
View ArticleCommon Core math: deep or dull?
According to a New York Times article by Motoko Rich, parents and students are finding Common Core math not only confusing but tedious and slow. To promote “conceptual” learning, many Core-aligned...
View ArticleGiving opinion its due
I have been thinking about Justin P. McBrayer’s New York Times op-ed, “Why Our Children Don’t Think There Are Moral Facts.” McBrayer notes that schools implicitly tout moral relativism by having...
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