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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…
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Six questions about Common Core-based tests — including MCAS 2.0
The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) recently sent this item out: The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness…
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Hey Ho! Hey Ho! Western Civ. has to go! In Massachusetts, too
It seems that the Massachusetts Secretary and Commissioner of Education do not think Bay State students should learn about their civic or…
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School choice: Fig leaf of the pro-Common Core Right
A recent report by the conservative Heritage Foundation suggests that the best way to fight the controversial Common Core educational standards is…
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The MBAE’s false ‘talking points’
The MBAE has decided, for unknown reasons, to put out ungrammatical "talking points" (dated March 2016) against the parents'…
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Acts of deception have morphed into bullying
Perhaps the greatest act of deception on behalf of Common Core is the preposterous claim by its major author Senator Lamar Alexander…
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Opting out: A civic duty, not civil disobedience
The writers who crafted the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the 2015 bill co-sponsored by Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and…
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To improve teacher quality, ditch Common Core
Most governors, state commissioners of education, state boards of education, and Chambers of Commerce seem to have an unshakable confidence in Common…
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Why we need to be allowed to vote on Bay State education standards
Why teachers and parents need a voice in the standards their public schools address: 1. They had no voice in the process…
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How the USED has managed to get it wrong, again
Here is an interesting dilemma. Common Core's writers planned for a grade 11 test that would tell us whether or…
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The high cost of academically under-qualified teachers
It was once a matter of common sense that teachers cannot teach what they do not know. And research supports the view…
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Why do we have academic standards in K-12?
There seems to be much confusion about why we have academic standards at all. Some folks want them because they want uniformity…
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How Massachusetts — not the feds — improved student achievement
An oft-cited study by Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob in 2010 on the impact of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) on…
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Deliberately deceiving the public on Common Core
On Nov. 17, 2015, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted not to move forward with the PARCC test (a…
