Truth in American Education

Fighting to stop the Common Core State Standards, their Assessments and Student Data Mining.

In Common Core, Little to Cheer About

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In Common Core, Little to Cheer About Andrew C. Porter  August 9, 2011   Education Week Reformers, myself included, have been saying that U.S. schools need to teach more higher-order thinking skills if we’re going to catch up with other countries’ educational systems. But curricula in top-performing countries we studied—like Finland, Japan, and New Zealand—put far […]

Common-Core Writers Craft Curriculum Criteria

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Common-Core Writers Craft Curriculum Criteria Catherine Gewertz  July 22, 2011  Education Week …crossing the line into telling teachers how to teach. Working under a contract with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation… One central tension in the discussion has been trying to address the need for instructional tools without dictating pedagogy; another has been the […]

The Common Core State Standards— Education Reform and Us Solomon Garfunkel

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The Common Core State Standards— Education Reform and Us Solomon Garfunkel  JUNE/JULY 2011      NOTICES OF THE AMS We will be living with this version of the standards for at least the next ten years, and it will determine what and how K–12 mathematics is taught and tested. …we risk having a small minority make decisions […]