Is Boston’s school district eliminating history department as part of Common Core?
The Boston public schools district found itself in the position of having to issue a public statement denying that it was eliminating its history and social studies department after someone posted on the Web that it was and the news went viral in the education world. Historians assumed it was true and rightly flipped out. […]
The Answer Sheet 5-26-14
Answer Sheet: Rating colleges is ‘like rating a blender’ — Education Department officialThis is what Jamienne Studley, a deputy under secretary at the Education Department, told a group of college presidents who were meeting to talk about President’s Obama’s plan to rate colleges with the apparent aim of driving out of business schools that don’t meet the administration’s definition of success, a