Reblogged from Stop the CRCT Madness by Stephanie Jones. Dr. Jones' research engages the intersections of social class, gender, and race with language, literacies, and educational equity with a particular interest in social class and poverty. You can follow...
Latest Story In my earlier post, I urged Atlanta's new superintendent to explain to the Atlanta community why using high-stakes achievement measures, such as increasing achievement scores while raising the bar, should not be used to measure school performance. Yet,...
Latest Story There was an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education that I believe pertains to K-12 education. The authors (Krislov, M. & Volk, S.S., 2014) reminded us that college is still for creating citizens. One of their main arguments was that "higher...
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...
A growing criticism of the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards is that its a way for progressives to inject their philosophies and ideology onto children and youth in American schools. One reader of this blog made...
The Common Core State Standards (Common Standards) have been implemented for about four years. According to the developers (the folks over at Achieve) and it's billionaire financiers, such as Bill Gates, the Common Standards are benchmarked against high performing...
