Wrestling with Policy Dilemmas: Common Core Assessments
While it’s easy to pick at flaws or cast doubt on policy ideas, meaningful change almost always requires the navigation of thorny dilemmas. Last week I touched on the dilemmas in the DC IMPACT teacher...
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Speech by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, September 2, 2010: I am convinced that this new generation of state assessments will be an absolute game-changer in public education. Experts See Hurdles...
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Week in Review: A Road Trip with the Common Core Content Frameworks
photo by calamity_hane It’s been quite a week. Congress finally agreed to a debt ceiling “compromise,” yet the world markets still tumbled. President Obama bounced back by managing to turn 50 and...
View ArticleNo Common Core Standards in Waivers, but what about Assessments?
As Education Week has reported today, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan clarified that states will not have to endorse the Common Core State Standards in order to successfully obtain a waiver from...
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Standardized Testing’s Foreign Aid Problem
Spend any time listening to talk radio and you’ll hear countless stories about “billions wasted” on foreign aid. Politicians seizing on painless ways to cut the deficit reinforce this perception of...
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How We Calculated State Testing Costs
My Education Week “Truth About Testing Costs” commentary outlines why the rhetoric about the high budgetary costs of testing is not only overblown, but in many ways counter-productive, because it...
View ArticleThe Waiver Wire: Thanksgiving Edition
This Thanksgiving, those of us following the ESEA reauthorization debate have a lot to be thankful for. Who’d have thought the last few months would be so exciting? We have a bipartisan (sort of)...
View ArticleThe Country’s Most Ambitious Digital Learning Project
Educators from coast-to-coast will celebrate the nation’s first Digital Learning Day on Wednesday. Amidst the cool technology demonstrations, shiny gadgets, and debates about online learning, it’s...
View ArticleLet’s Solve This: Building Public Awareness of Common Core
It’s no Super Bowl, but this weekend’s Masters golf coverage featured a few exciting, innovative ads of its own. And this time they weren’t for Chrysler, M&Ms, or Doritos. It seems Exxon Mobil, one...
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