CCSS Implementation
Mississippi Will Struggle With Common Core Implementation
I had written earlier that Arizona has funding issues with the Common Core. Iowa’s Department of Education doesn’t even have statutory authority to implement the SBAC tests. Now The Sun Herald in Biloxi, MS reports that schools in Mississippi will have a hard time with implementation: All U.S. students in second through 12th grades, under [...]
Common Core Has Funding Issues In Arizona
Here is where the Common Core State Standards are very much at risk of becoming undone. State Boards and Departments of Education rushed to adopt them, but they’re not the ones paying for it. Arizona is having problems with the bottom line. I doubt they are alone. From The Arizona Republic: Arizona leaders have called [...]
Common Core Math Standards Making the Simple Complicated
Barry Garelick wrote at The Atlantic about the Common Core Math Standards. Basically he says that kids are required not to just learn how to make a calculations, but also how to explain why they are doing so. The standards actually elevate this above learning how to solve math problems. Garelick points out a couple [...]
Should Teachers Be the Only Ones to Own Education Standards?
John Ewing writing at Education Week seems to think so. Or was it? After two decades of standards, we still wring our hands about student declines, unfocused curricula, and dreadful textbooks. There is little evidence that previous standards substantially improved education, and the fact that we continually replace old standards with new does not suggest [...]
Now We See How A Common Core Failure Will Be Spun
Blame the teachers… via EdWeek’s Andrew Ujifusa reporting from the Education Commission of States policy meeting that was held in Atlanta last week: Zimba fended off a question from an audience member about whether the common core had been comprehensively tested in the field by saying the common core is the result of a decade-long [...]
About Those NCLB Waivers…
From some who thought the No Child Left Behind waivers were going to ease the reporting burden on states who receive them… think again. From EdWeek: The Education Department is in the process of changing its requirements for the federal EDFacts system, which consolidates data from various education programs including Title I grants to districts [...]
STEM Makes No Sense
According to Marc Tucker at EdWeek: Here is an interesting fact. The countries that are producing more people with higher skills in mathematics, science, engineering, technology and science don’t have STEM programs. When we do benchmarking research in those countries, we don’t hear their educators talking about STEM priorities. We don’t hear their industrial leaders [...]
The “Enemy’s” Response to Fordham’s Wishful Cost Projections
Edweek reported today on the conflicting studies completed aimed at determining how much the Common Core State Standards will cost. The Pioneer Institute and the American Principles Project in their report last February estimated a $16 Billion price tag. The Fordham Institute, a pro-common core think tank, estimates up to $8.3 Billion could be spent [...]
Spinning Failure Before It Happens
I read an article last week that made me chuckle… a common core supporter is already spinning the inevitable failure of the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. Kathleen Porter-Magee writes for the Education Gadfly Daily. There isn’t a Common Core supporter in the nation who hasn’t qualified her enthusiasm for what the standards [...]
