Is the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Smart or Just Dumb? That's the question we'll try to address in this blog post. The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) released scale scores for math and ELA (English Language Arts) aligned to the...
There was an article in Scientific American entitled Science in a Republican Senate: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It is well worth a read, and I'll be commenting more on the article in the days ahead. But for this blog post, I want to apply the Good, the Bad, and...
It's begun. The School Board of Cobb County, Georgia, where I live, just voted (5-1-1) to purchase math books (print and digital) aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). McGraw-Hill books will be purchased for K-8, and Houghton Mifflin...
Terrill Nickerson commented on the previous post on this blog, 6 Reasons Why the Common Core is Not Progressive Ideology. I thought his comments were important to share as a separate post. Terrill Nickerson has written an interesting article on how he approaches...
> Imagine what it would be like if every school district in the U.S. used the same core (standards) curriculum, and that every few years, new textbooks and media products needed to purchased. If the Common Standards are fully adopted across the nation, then it will be...
At the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards' Teaching and Learning Conference in Washington, Bill Gates came to the rescue of the Common Core State Standards. In an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, Gates said he was concerned with people...
