Common-Core Commentaries

Lawmakers should do more to expand efforts to link schools with networks of social support, argues Sarah M. Fine.
February 1, 2010 - Education Week
Members of the Teacher Leaders Network argue that teachers have a right to profit from their own intellectual work.
November 18, 2009 - Teacher (Web)
Susan Fuhrman, Lauren Resnick, and Lorrie Shepard tell what else will be needed to make the proposed common standards work.
October 9, 2009 | Updated: August 20, 2012 - Education Week
Commentary
More Is Not Better
The search for common core standards should concentrate on providing focus and flexibility, writes Vicki Phillips, the director of education initiatives at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
September 24, 2009 - Education Week
National standards may be hot right now, but are they really what's best for students, asks Dan Brown.
August 19, 2009 - Teacher (Web)
Quentin Suffren writes that the success of the common-standards effort will depend in part on just how willing the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association are to buck consensus, when needed, to achieve excellence.
July 21, 2009 - Education Week
“There is no guarantee that voluntary national content standards would be better than the standards currently in use by states, but there are at least five good reasons to think that they would be,” write Andrew C. Porter and Morgan S. Polikoff.
June 11, 2009 - Education Week

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