The Fordham Institute just came out with its \u201cresearch\u201d on reading and writing under Common Core.<\/p>\n
Fordham 2018 \u201cresearch\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n No mention of three baseline studies that preceded Common Core.<\/p>\n Stotsky, Goering, Jolliffe study of Arkansas high school English teachers\u2019 assignments<\/a><\/p>\n Stotsky, Traffas, Woodworth study of national sample of high school English teachers\u2019 assignments<\/a><\/p>\n National Endowment for the Arts, Reading At Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America<\/a><\/p>\n Pre-Common Core English teachers taught complete literary works\u2014mostly appropriate for high school. Today they don\u2019t teach complete works and we don\u2019t know what they do teach since Fordham didn\u2019t find out.<\/p>\n See also Peter Greene’s insights in Forbes<\/em>, How Common Core Testing Damaged High School English Classes<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Fordham Institute just came out with its \u201cresearch\u201d on reading and writing under Common Core. Fordham 2018 \u201cresearch\u201d No mention of three baseline studies that preceded Common Core. Stotsky, Goering, Jolliffe study of Arkansas high school English teachers\u2019 assignments … Continue reading