More Better Citizens: Obama’s Higher-Education Agenda, Part 4B of 8
Apr 02, 2012 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood looks at the ways "diversity," loan forgiveness for public service, the Common Core State Standards, and Obama's earlier involvment with the group Public Allies show the President's overall determination to use… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
The Core Conundrum
Mar 02, 2012 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood takes note of the emerging battle over the legality of the Common Core curriculum.
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Nomenclatura
Mar 21, 2011 by Will Fitzhugh |
Educational special interest agents can be effective only if they focus on the actual academic work of our students, argues Will Fitzhugh.
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Common Core Standards Miss the Mark
Jun 21, 2010 by Sandra Stotsky |
Sandra Stotsky believes new standards for grades 6-12 English are too low and don't equip students to be "college- and career-ready.
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Ratatat, Sissy, Bay State Boom: Obama Whacks K-12 Standards
Apr 05, 2010 by Peter Wood |
Critics say Race to the Top and the Common Core State Standards Initiative will make K-12 education worse.
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The New K-12 Standards Debate
Mar 24, 2010 by Ashley Thorne, Peter Wood |
Under pressure, 48 states have proposed common standards for grades K-12. Some of them are having second thoughts. What do you think?
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What’s Cooking
Sep 20, 2009 by Peter Wood |
Yale, Virgina Tech, East Georgia, Eastern Michigan, Latin American Historians, 21st Century Cluelessness, and CampusReform.org--we've got it all.
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Horse-Hair Justice
Sep 15, 2009 by Peter Wood |
Thoughts on "21st-Century Skills" and where education should begin.
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