A White Paper on the Common Core Standards
Jay McTighe and I have written a white paper on implementation of the Common Core Standards entitled From Common Core …
Category Archives: Standards
A nagging doubt about national standards
I have in general been a fan of the movement toward national standards. There is obvious sense in it: there …
Standards, Part 3: The Arbitrary Single Grade or Score
In my previous two posts on standards, I pointed out that though we talk of “a” standard, it would be …
National Standards and local grading: an F for the failure to discuss it
Yet another document related to national standards has been released: the SMARTER balanced assessment consortium report. There are some nice …
The Common Core Standards: good but simply not yet good enough
As I have said numerous times in conferences and on this blog, I am a fan of Common Core Standards. …
Teacher standards-based grading gets an F
I find it unbelievable that 20 years into the Standards movement you can count on one hand the number of …
A Concern about the recent Common Core ELA Publishers’ Criteria
Recently David Coleman and Susan Pimentel, the authors of the Common Core ELA Standards, issued what they titled Publishers’ Criteria for the …
The dismal state of mathematics education
Math – a big problem. I love math, but mathematics education is failing miserably. Don’t take my word for it: …
Intelligent Grouping: It’s Time
How would you like to be competing on Master Chef as a novice where all the other students are semi-pro’s? …
