Common-Core Commentaries

Two teachers attempt to set the record straight on the instructional shifts required by the common standards.
July 10, 2012 - Teacher
Timed math tests can transform children's brains, leading to low math achievement even among highly capable students, writes Jo Boaler.
July 3, 2012 - Education Week
Although not a silver bullet, the common-core standards reflect "the highest-quality academic standards our country has seen," writes Gene Wilhoit.
June 22, 2012 - Education Week
Will Fitzhugh of The Concord Review is skeptical about emphasizing speed in scoring student writing over understanding of content.
June 20, 2012 - Education Week
Social studies teacher Stephen Lazar says that coordinating a history fair with his class has helped to change the way his students view themselves as learners.
June 5, 2012 - Teacher
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Eat Your Math
Like the importance of maintaining a healthy diet, math instruction requires a balanced and measured approach, writes Robert Kaplinsky.
June 5, 2012 - Education Week
Policymakers must look forward in setting science education goals rather than obsess about content mastery and testing.
May 23, 2012 - Education Week
Michael D. Usdan and Arthur D. Sheekey write that state education agencies are ill-equipped to handle reform, but the process of reauthorizing the ESEA could change that.
May 14, 2012 - Education Week
With a draft of the science standards due out soon, Deanna Kuhn suggests how to make the subject more engaging to students.
April 24, 2012 - Education Week
Who weighed in on the common core in the past 12 months and what did they have to say? The Commentary editors take a look back.
April 23, 2012 - Education Week

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