Common-Core Commentaries
The widely adopted Common Core State Standards have provoked opinions and ideas from thought leaders, policymakers, and the 糖心动漫vlog who have to implement them. Browse their perspectives in this collection.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
Confessions of an Assessment Field-Tester
A common-core enthusiast, Carol Lloyd, questions the assessment after her daughter takes it.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
How to Build a Better Teacher Evaluation
Communication is key to an effective teacher-evaluation process, writes district superintendent Nicholas A. Fischer.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
Charting a Common-Sense Course for the Common Core
States should phase in use of common-core assessments for teacher evaluation, write Jane Leibbrand and Alice Seagren.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
A Teacher's Mixed Review of Common Standards
An 8th grade social studies teacher, Kimberly Meller, shares her thoughts on the benefits of (and frustrations with) common standards.
School & District Management
Opinion
How to Create a New K-12 Engine
Meeting each child where he or she is in early childhood and increasing out-of-school learning experiences are some of the ways to strengthen our weakened education system and drive K-12 results, writes Paul Reville.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
For Science Standards, Begin at the Beginning
New science standards should roll out over time, not launch in all grades at once, Kim Kastens and Abigail Jurist Levy write.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
This Toxic Standards Fight Isn't Helping Students
School choice provides an immediate and positive academic solution for students, unlike the hostile fight around the common core, writes Kevin P. Chavous.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
Embracing Teachers as Critical Thinkers
If the common-core standards are to succeed, the deeper learning and thinking they promote must be adopted by teachers, as well as students, writes David Ruenzel.
Federal
Opinion
Let's Mend, Not End, Educational Testing
Sound assessments are integral to good teaching and learning, but they must not be used beyond their technical limits, writes Madhabi Chatterji.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
When Education Is But a Test Score
The corporate model of schooling relies on the unreasonable idea that higher test scores reflect improvements in education, writes Michael V. McGill.
Federal
Opinion
California: A K-12 Education Outlier
Even though it's a state under Democratic control, California's education policies do not fall in line with those of the Obama administration, writes Charles Taylor Kerchner.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
Statistics: The New 'It' Common-Core Subject
In response to the growing interest in all-things statistics, it's time to foster data literacy in our classrooms, writes Anna E. Bargagliotti.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
A Common Cause for the Common Core
The common standards offer an opportunity to level the playing field for all students regardless of their ZIP code, income, race, or ethnicity, Rufina Hern谩ndez writes.
School & District Management
Opinion
Why Make Reform So Complicated?
When it comes to improving learning, schools would do better to choose simple solutions with clear priorities and goals instead of the complicated fixes they often adopt, Mike Schmoker writes.