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 […]
School Districts Uncertain About Common Core Assessments
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 […]
Common Core & Data Collection
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 […]
Common Core Assessments May Be Content-Neutered
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 […]
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