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Smarter Balanced Has Lots of Room for Improvement

November 20, 2014 By Shane Vander Hart

Doug McRae is a retired educational measurement specialist who has served as an educational testing company executive in charge of design and development of K-12 tests widely used across the United States, as well as an adviser on the initial design and development of California’s STAR assessment system.  He’s knows just a little something about […]

Filed Under: Common Core Assessments Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, Doug McRae, Smarter Balanced

School Districts Uncertain About Common Core Assessments

October 30, 2014 By Shane Vander Hart

From The Washington Post: But most leaders leaders of 187 school districts who responded to the survey last spring by the Center on Education Policy, a non-partisan think tank housed at George Washington University, anticipate logistical problems. About three-fourths, or 76 percent, of districts said they face either major or minor challenges, including a lack […]

Filed Under: Common Core Assessments Tagged With: Common Core Assessment, Common Core State Standards, PARCC, Smarter Balanced

Common Core & Data Collection

April 7, 2014 By Jane Robbins

A particularly troubling aspect of the Common Core scheme is the emphasis on massive data-collection on students, and the sharing of that data for various purposes essentially unrelated to genuine education. U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has said: Hopefully, some day, we can track children from preschool to high school and from high […]

Filed Under: Privacy/SLDS Tagged With: Arne Duncan, Common Core State Standards, Common Education Data Standards, data mining, data privacy, FERPA, Karen Cator, National Education Data Model, PARCC, Promoting Grit, Smarter Balanced, State Fiscal Stabilization Fund, Statewide Longitudinal Data System, Stimulus Bill, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Labor, Workforce Data Quality Initiative

Common Core Assessments May Be Content-Neutered

February 27, 2014 By Shane Vander Hart

Ze’ev Wurman pointed out to me (and others) an interesting article written by David Steiner, former New York State Commissioner of Education and Common Core advocate, in Education Next.  In it he unwittingly makes a case against the Common Core. First he points out how content poor the Common Core ELA standards are: Formally, the […]

Filed Under: Common Core Assessments Tagged With: Common Core ELA Standards, David Steiner, E.D. Hirsch, PARCC, Smarter Balanced

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