How Common Core Standards will succeed — even if they don’t
What does success mean when it comes to evaluating the Common Core State Standards? Here to explain is Larry Cuban,a high school social studies teacher for 14 years, a district superintendent (seven years in Arlington, Virginia), and professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, where he has taught for more than 20 years. His latest book is “Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice: Change without Reform in American Education.” This post appeared on his blog.By Larry Cuban
Even though there is little evidence that state standards have increased student academic achievement since the 1980s, 45 states and the District of Columbia have embraced the Common Core State Standards (see here and here).
Even though there is little evidence that countries with national standards do not necessarily score higher on international tests than nations without national standards, many states have already aligned their standards to textbooks, lessons, and tests– (seehere and here).
Even though there is little evidence Common Core standards will produce the skilled
How the ‘reading wars’ are being reignited
This is a new piece about an issue raised in this post last week, titled “Literacy experts say reformers reviving ‘reading wars.’” Both of these refer to ratings published in June by a group called the National Council on Teacher … Continue reading →