What’s Missing in Indiana’s ELA Standards
Below is the report I sent to Governor Pence on April 8, 2014 containing the suggestions of four Indiana high school English
Author: Sandra Stotsky
Sandra Stotsky is professor of education emerita at the University of Arkansas, where she held the 21st Century Chair in Teacher Quality. She served as Senior Associate Commissioner (a professional position) at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education from 1999-2003, where she was in charge of developing or revising all the stateās K-12 standards, teacher licensure tests, and teacher and administrator licensure regulations. She served on the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education from 2006-2010 (a citizen position), on the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, from 2006-2008, and on the Common Core Validation Committee, from 2009-2010. She was one of the five members of the Validation Committee who would not sign off on the standards.
This Common Core Critic Is Still Charged Up
On April 14, American Enterprise Instituteās Rick Hess and Mike McShane charged me in a blog on National Review Online with not
Sandra Stotsky: Local School Boards Must Take Action Now
Local school boards must take action now. They still have the legal authority in every single state even if they are told
Should American High Schools Prepare any Students for STEM? Common Core Doesn’t Think So
When states adopted Common Coreās mathematics standards, they were told (among other things) that these standards would make all high school students