March Madness: Millions of kids being used as Common Core testing guinea pigs
If you think a bunch of college basketball teams facing off in a tournament is March Madness, consider this: Starting this week and going into June, more than 4 million students in 36 states and the District of Columbia are “field testing” (read it: being used as human guinea pigs) English and math standardized tests […]
The 13-step college admissions process — Onion-style
You think you know how the college admissions process works, right? Well, you are wrong. Here, from our friends at the hilarious Onion, are the 13 steps that tell us how the process really works. From The Onion: This week hundreds of colleges across the country will be notifying applicants whether they’ve been accepted, waitlisted, […]
3-26-14 The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: Who should decide who is college material and who isn’t?College, of course, isn’t for everybody, but who should decide — and how and when — which students should go and shouldn’t? In this post, Kevin Welner and Carol Burris ask whether the decision should be made by policy makers and school officials or parents and students after young people have had equitable opportunities to [