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Recent Posts
- Common Core Collaborators: Six Organizational Portraits 31 August, 2018
- State of ELA under Common Core 19 July, 2018
- My letter to Bill Gates on how to prepare students for algebra 17 May, 2018
- Nation’s Report Card: Common Core delivering education stagnation 12 April, 2018
- There are Only Two Sides to US Education Policy (Thanks to the Parties) 8 April, 2018
- New in the Nonpartisan Education Review: Who watches the watchmen? Transparency might guard the integrity of the tests given by the National Assessment of Educational Progress 8 April, 2018
- What I learned at the ResearchED (US) Media Panel 2 December, 2017
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Common Core Has Utterly Failed -- But These Supporters Won't Let It Go thenationalpulse.com/commentary/com… via @TheNatPulse
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Maryland to ditch statewide PARCC exams in favor of homegrown test wapo.st/2CT2ltf?tid=ss…
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Did Memphis school leaders just get a pass in the $159,000 grade-tampering probe? chalkbeat.org/posts/tn/2018/…
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The Effect of Testing on Student Achievement, 1910–2010 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Most Tennessee voters favor state tests and want TNReady fixed, says new poll chalkbeat.org/posts/tn/2018/…
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Is Common Core Racist? Check Out The Results. nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Essays/…
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Author Archives: Sandra Stotsky
State of ELA under Common Core
The Fordham Institute just came out with its “research” on reading and writing under Common Core. Fordham 2018 “research” No mention of three baseline studies that preceded Common Core. Stotsky, Goering, Jolliffe study of Arkansas high school English teachers’ assignments … Continue reading
New in the Nonpartisan Education Review: Who watches the watchmen? Transparency might guard the integrity of the tests given by the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Who watches the watchmen? Transparency might guard the integrity of the tests given by the National Assessment of Educational Progress by Sandra Stotsky http://nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Essays/v14n2.htm
PEISCH SAYS REPEALING COMMON CORE WOULD BE “HUGE MISTAKE”
It seems that some Massachusetts representatives don’t think that parents, teachers, and administrators should be allowed to vote on a secret ballot whether they want to keep Common Core’s inferior standards or return to the state’s superior standards junked by … Continue reading
How the USED has managed to get it wrong, again
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/02/03/dad-my-state-now-requires-11th-graders-to-take-the-sat-not-my-daughter/ An interesting dilemma. Common Core’s writers planned for a grade 11 test that would tell us whether or not students were college and career ready. Parents and state legislators don’t know who sets the cut score, what test items … Continue reading
