This is a good question, and one that Catherine Gewertz addresses in her blog at Education Week – What Do Kentucky Test Results Foreshadow for the Common Core. In her blog she …

In the 1980s and 1990s I was fortunate enough to be chosen for a number of National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminars for secondary teachers.  On a university campus, a group of 15 or …

Successful transition to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), like most things in life, has a lot to do with timing. Every district in the 46 states participating in the Common Core is unique …

The PARCC assessment consortium has taken an indirect approach to defining career and college readiness (CCR).  Rather than offer a definition of CCR, they are correlating educational assessment …

Just before the holidays, Education Sector released a report entitled Let History Not Repeat Itself: Overcoming Obstacles to the Common Core’s Success authored by John Chubb.  This is a rich and …

In a recent webinar discussing the promise of the assessment consortia, Joan Herman, Director of the Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Learning (CRESST) at UCLA, and Chris …

In a blog post on Getting Smart – 7 Teacher Questions About Common Core State Standards – Courtney Hanes describes the beginning steps of transition to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in …