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Category Archives: Standards

A White Paper on the Common Core Standards

September 19, 2012

Jay McTighe and I have written a white paper on implementation of the Common Core Standards entitled From Common Core …

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A nagging doubt about national standards

July 29, 2012

I have in general been a fan of the movement toward national standards. There is obvious sense in it: there …

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Standards, Part 3: The Arbitrary Single Grade or Score

November 16, 2011

In my previous two posts on standards, I pointed out that though we talk of “a” standard, it would be …

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National Standards and local grading: an F for the failure to discuss it

September 5, 2011

Yet another document related to national standards has been released: the SMARTER balanced assessment consortium report. There are some nice …

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The Common Core Standards: good but simply not yet good enough

August 17, 2011

As I have said numerous times in conferences and on this blog, I am a fan of Common Core Standards. …

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Teacher standards-based grading gets an F

August 8, 2011

I find it unbelievable that 20 years into the Standards movement you can count on one hand the number of …

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A Concern about the recent Common Core ELA Publishers’ Criteria

August 5, 2011

Recently David Coleman and Susan Pimentel, the authors of the Common Core ELA Standards, issued what they titled Publishers’ Criteria for the …

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The dismal state of mathematics education

August 4, 2011

Math – a big problem. I love math, but mathematics education is failing miserably. Don’t take my word for it: …

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Intelligent Grouping: It’s Time

July 28, 2011

How would you like to be competing on Master Chef as a novice where all the other students are semi-pro’s? …

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Grant Wiggins is the co-author of Understanding by Design and the author of Educative Assessment and numerous articles on education. He is the President of Authentic Education in Hopewell NJ. You can read more about him and his work at the AE site (click here)

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Recent Posts

  • Cheating or not?
  • The challenge of responding to off-the-mark comments
  • “I didn’t know they could think!”
  • On close reading, part 2
  • What, exactly, is close reading of the text?
  • 20 years later: the immorality of test security, revisited
  • The Common Core Standards: a Defense
  • Beginnings, and their educational importance
  • The break-things-into-bits mistake we have been making in education for centuries – happening today with standards
  • Dereliction of duty by HS teachers
  • My 100th post. So why not bash algebra?
  • The Standards and creativity – compatible
  • Guest post: more on strategy and tactics in teaching (in this case, English)
  • Radical test prep
  • An excerpt from our just-released book on Essential Questions
  • On strategy, part 2: response to feedback on earlier post about the mess of ‘reading strategies’
  • Webinar on design thinking
  • On so-called ‘reading strategies’ – the utter mess that is the literature and advice to teachers
  • The E. Tipp middle school problem solvers, part 3
  • The power of modeling and performance: a guest post on the Suzuki method of music teaching
  • The E. Tipp middle school problem solvers, part 2
  • The budding mathematicians at East Tipp Middle School and the mystery of the lost information
  • Autonomy and the need to back off by design as teachers
  • hiring, part 2: A friend responds with an interesting example in medicine
  • On genuine vs. bogus inquiry – using EQs properly
  • On Rubrics and Models, Part 2: A Dialogue
  • UbD and serendipity: why planning helps rather than hinders creativity
  • hiring: what we can learn from a sushi restaurant
  • Intelligent vs. thoughtless use of rubrics and models (Part 1)
  • Avoiding stupidification
  • 2012 in review
  • The odd correlation between SES and achievement: why haven’t more critical questions been asked? A call to action
  • Math as artistry: an interview with Steve Strogatz, mathematician
  • Is that story about me? Latino children, books, and literacy
  • The 31 most influential classic books in education – a crowd-sourced list
  • How do you plan? On templates and instructional planning

Useful Sites

  • Authentic Education – home page
  • Models by Design – Alexis Wiggins
  • Washington Post Education Page

recent tweets

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  • RT @delta_dc: "The Faulty Logic of the 'Math Wars'" opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/the… Ex of false premises, false equivalencies, & straw man arguments… 1 day ago
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RSS Curriculum Matters Blog

  • The Path to Protecting Humanities and Social Sciences
    A new report recommends that the nation take 12 key steps to ensure that humanities and social sciences maintain an important place in American classrooms. "The Heart of the Matter," issued today by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, grew from a congressional request for guidance on how to protect the central role of those disciplines dur […]
    Catherine Gewertz
  • Catching Up With Edweek's Online Chat About Common Core
    Did you miss the live chat about EdWeek's four-part series on the common core? You can read a transcript of all the questions and answers on our website. Thanks to all the readers who participated, I had the opportunity to consider and answer some great questions about common-core implementation in English/language arts. They ranged from high-level, nat […]
    Catherine Gewertz
  • New Report Blasts Teacher-Prep Programs
    A new study of teacher-preparation programs finds much to lament, calling them an "industry of mediocrity." Our Stephen Sawchuk explains it all for you in a story on EdWeek's website today. It's a very good read, not only for what the study by the National Council on Teacher Quality found, but for the intense criticism it's getting f […]
    Catherine Gewertz
  • Explore the 'Science of Golf' in New Online Video Series
    Guest post by Bryan Toporek. Cross-posted from the Schooled in Sports blog. "Angry Birds" isn't the only game with a bevy of underlying mathematical and scientific principles. A new 10-part online series from NBC Learn (the educational arm of NBC News), the United States Golf Association (USGA), and Chevron Corp. explores the science behind th […]
    Bryan Toporek
  • Common Science Standards Deserve 'C' Grade, Think Tank Says
    Updated: (11:08 a.m.) The existing science standards in 12 states and the District of Columbia are "clearly superior" to the Next Generation Science Standards developed by a coalition of states and national organizations, a think tank concludes in a new report. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute gives the standards a middling grade of C, and suggests […]
    Erik Robelen
  • Participate in an Online Chat About Edweek's Common-Core Series!
    If you've been reading our series on one district's experience implementing the Common Core State Standards in English/language arts, you might be interested in joining an online chat next week to ask questions of the reporter who's been writing it. That would be me. Join me on Monday, June 17 at 2 p.m. Eastern time to discuss what I found whe […]
    Catherine Gewertz

RSS Class Struggles – Jay Matthews

  • School ignores advice from learning disability experts
    Stacie Brockman is the Prince George’s County mother of lively twin 9-year-old boys. Her sons were born two months premature. She has done everything possible to deal with the disabilities that often impede the progress of such children. Read full article >>    
    Jay Mathews
  • Experts’ wrong way to pick best principals
    Anyone involved with schools has noticed that many governors, legislators and school boards think business practices can improve education. There is little proof of this. It’s a fad. If we leave it alone, it will go away. Read full article >>    
    Jay Mathews
  • How to survive our education battles
    The latest fashions in the American education system are, as usual, inspiring raucous debate. I try to take sides in these arguments. Isn’t it my job to explain who’s right? But I wonder. There is much chatter, for instance, over education historian Diane Ravitch’s fiery assault on Ben Austin, founder of the Parent Revolution organization. The California “pa […]
    Jay Mathews

RSS NY Times on Education

  • The Learning Network Blog: Iran Elects a New Leader
    What kind of leader do you think Iran’s president-elect will be? Do you think Iran’s policies will change with regard to its nuclear program and political repression?    
    By MICHAEL GONCHAR
  • The Learning Network Blog: Test Yourself | Math, June 19, 2013
    Can you calculate the population of Manhattan if you know the number of commuters and the percentage by which they increase said population?    
    By THE LEARNING NETWORK
  • The Learning Network Blog: News Quiz | June 19, 2013
    See what you know about the news of the day.    
    By ANASTASIA ECONOMIDES

RSS Learning Matters – John Merrow

  • The Common Core and the End of the World
  • Making Demands
  • An Open Letter to the Architects of the Common Core
  • Your Last Standardized Test Ever

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  • Who said it? (revealed)

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