Chicago Teachers Union passes resolution opposing Common Core
The Chicago Teachers’ Union House of Delegates has passed a resolution opposing use of the Common Core State Standards in teaching and testing, and it plans to lobby the Illinois Board of Education to reverse approval of the Core and ask its parent union, the American Federation of Teachers, to consider it at its upcoming […]
5-8-14 The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: How students will be affected by federal revocation of Washington’s NCLB waiverI recently published an open letter by a school board member in Washington named David Iseminger to Education Secretary Arne Duncan about the Education Department’s revocation of the state’s waiver from onerous parts of No Child Left Behind. Congress was supposed to rewrite NCLB seven years ago but it