Big promises for new tests - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess If the two competing national organizations do design tests for the Common Core standards in math and English language arts as they promise, California will be better off. It and other states will then be able to eliminate, or at least minimize, some ...
Why the politics we’ve got won’t produce the schools we need - by Charles Taylor Kerchner Why, one might ask, should California, the headwaters of the digital revolution, be stuck in the eddies of an early 20th Century school design? The answer lies partly in culture and partly in politics. Almost all the politics of education concerns ...
