Spreading the Massachusetts ‘education miracle’
Last week, the NewBostonPost reported that the Michigan state Senate is considering dropping the national Common Core standards and replacing them and…
Last week, the NewBostonPost reported that the Michigan state Senate is considering dropping the national Common Core standards and replacing them and…
The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) recently sent this item out: The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness…
It seems that the Massachusetts Secretary and Commissioner of Education do not think Bay State students should learn about their civic or…
A recent report by the conservative Heritage Foundation suggests that the best way to fight the controversial Common Core educational standards is…
The MBAE has decided, for unknown reasons, to put out ungrammatical "talking points" (dated March 2016) against the parents'…
Perhaps the greatest act of deception on behalf of Common Core is the preposterous claim by its major author Senator Lamar Alexander…
The writers who crafted the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the 2015 bill co-sponsored by Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and…
Most governors, state commissioners of education, state boards of education, and Chambers of Commerce seem to have an unshakable confidence in Common…
Why teachers and parents need a voice in the standards their public schools address: 1. They had no voice in the process…
Here is an interesting dilemma. Common Core's writers planned for a grade 11 test that would tell us whether or…
It was once a matter of common sense that teachers cannot teach what they do not know. And research supports the view…
There seems to be much confusion about why we have academic standards at all. Some folks want them because they want uniformity…
An oft-cited study by Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob in 2010 on the impact of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) on…
On Nov. 17, 2015, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted not to move forward with the PARCC test (a…