Common Core State Standards: An Example of Data-less Decision Making
Posted: 2011-02-01
This is from AASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice, Vol. 7, No. 4 Winter 2011
We may know the disparate facts, but here they are presented in a readable, coherent whole.
I confess I've been wondering why nobody talks about Japan any more. Remember when we teachers were asked why we couldn't be more like the Japanese? As Christopher Tienken points out: They've had national curriculum standards and testing for over 30 years. Japanese students outrank other nations on math and science tests, but their economy has been in shambles for almost two decades.
This paper has great lines as well as great research: Size matters because size brings complexity. Finland,
