Common-Core Commentaries

Mike Schmoker and Gerald Graff write that the new common-core standards in English/language arts are bloated and lacking a focus on an essential skill: argument.
April 19, 2011 - Education Week
The only way to make large-scale improvements in schools is by developing and rigorously evaluating promising methods, and then scaling up the ones that work, Robert E. Slavin writes.
March 29, 2011 - Education Week
Educators and researchers on both sides of the value-added debate squared off recently on the legitimacy of using student-performance data in evaluating teacher effectiveness.
December 6, 2010 - Teacher
Michael D. Usdan says election results could impact standards, and altering their governance mechanism must wait.
October 25, 2010 - Education Week
Common standards are a reality, but how they are interpreted and assessed is all-important, writes Sarah Fine.
October 14, 2010 - Education Week
Elementary school music teacher Steve Owens reflects on Katy Farber's recent book, Why Great Teachers Quit: And How We Might Stop the Exodus, and what it means for the future of the teaching profession.
September 22, 2010 - Teacher (Web)
From her extensive research on Japan's "public research lessons," Catherine C. Lewis proposes a way to ensure the success of common-core standards.
September 10, 2010 - Education Week
Deciding who should teach the goals of language arts instruction is as ambiguous as ever, writes Rafael Heller.
August 20, 2010 - Education Week
The common-core standards should be modified, writes University of Georgia educator William G. Wraga, to give greater emphasis to interdisciplinary study and educating students for democratic citizenship.
August 18, 2010 - Education Week
The bureaucratic approach to schooling that national standards imply has always ignored the real problems of schools—and of society, writes Furman University's P.L. Thomas.
August 9, 2010 - Education Week

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