Common-Core Commentaries

Learning begins at birth, writes Elanna S. Yalow, and learning standards should start with even our youngest children.
July 26, 2010 - Education Week
In English and language arts, the new common-core standards will provide a set of universal expectations from which all local planning, comparison, and improvement can flow, argues high school teacher H. Ogden Morse.
June 25, 2010 - Education Week
Improving the academic performance of students with learning disabilities does not mean relaxing standards, writes Lynda J. Katz, the president of Landmark College.
June 8, 2010 - Education Week
Using Japan as an example, Gary DeCoker writes of eight ways that the new common-core standards may benefit U.S. education.
May 18, 2010 - Education Week
Douglas B. Reeves sees promise in the proposed standards, but disagrees with the drafters' belief that instructional guides are off-limits.
May 11, 2010 - Education Week
Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst questions whether the Obama administration has the authority to set the policies that are determining its allocation of stimulus funding.
April 27, 2010 - Education Week
With dropout rates sky-high and future jobs stressing "soft skills," we don't need everyone to study quadratic equations, say Robert I. Lerman and Arnold Packer.
April 20, 2010 - Education Week
The future, Stanley N. Rabinowitz writes, will include more flexibility, multiple measures of achievement, different roles for government, and technical innovation.
February 22, 2010 - Education Week
Common standards should not take the joy and power of book reading away from students, Nancie Atwell writes.
February 8, 2010 - Education Week
If adopted, the proposed common-core standards for writing will kill the spirit that produces great literature and nonfiction, Edgar H. Schuster argues.
February 1, 2010 - Education Week

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