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This Common Core Critic Is Still Charged Up

April 21, 2014 By Sandra Stotsky

On April 14, American Enterprise Institute’s Rick Hess and Mike McShane charged me in a blog on National Review Online with not coming up with “next steps” to “repeal and replace” for states that want to restore academic integrity to their K-12 curriculum in English language arts and mathematics. I’m almost but not quite exhausted […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Claire Fiddian-Green, Common Core State Standards, David Coleman, Hung-Hsi Wu, John Briggs, Mike McShane, Mike Pence, Molly Chamberlin, Rick Hess, Sandra Stotsky, Sue Pimentel

Sandra Stotsky: Local School Boards Must Take Action Now

March 25, 2014 By Sandra Stotsky

Local school boards must take action now. They still have the legal authority in every single state even if they are told they don’t, or think they don’t. They must, upon petition by parents asap, vote (1) to allow parents to opt-out their children from any Common Core-based test (pilot, field, or regular); (2) to […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, local control in education, Sandra Stotsky

Should American High Schools Prepare any Students for STEM? Common Core Doesn’t Think So

November 26, 2013 By Sandra Stotsky

When states adopted Common Core’s mathematics standards, they were told (among other things) that these standards would make all high school students “college- and career-ready” and strengthen the critical pipeline for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). However, with the exception of a few standards in trigonometry, the math standards end after Algebra II, as […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Common Core Math Standards, Common Core State Standards, James Milgram, Sandra Stotsky, STEM

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