Standards-Based Reform Lacks Evidence
This past weekend, I was featured prominently in a story by Elisa Crouch of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the...
Don’t Like Common Core, Go Ahead And Leave
Last week, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) hosted “information sessions” throughout the state about the new...
Lindbergh Crowd Halts Scripted Common Core Meeting
Officials from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) are finding out that it might not be easier...
DESE Should Consider District Level Waivers
Let’s recap. In 1965, the United States Congress passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as part of Lyndon...
What is so Common about the Common Core?
I have heard the old adage, “the plural of anecdote isn’t data.” Nevertheless, on two occasions recently I had the...
Chester E. Finn Jr. on the Common Core Standards
Chester E. Finn Jr. is trying to convince conservatives to support the Common Core Standards. Although I don’t know whether...
The Standards Dilemma
National education standards pose a problem for states that have high standards already. If they replace their state standards with...
Literature and the Common Core Standards
The Common Core State Standards Initiative published another draft of its standards today. The new version is more detailed than...
If We All Went Swimming in the Mississippi …
… would state math standards improve? Lest you think that’s an odd question, let me assure you that it was...
Barriers to Improvement
The Grade reports that Missouri has joined the Common Core State Standards Initiative. This is how Missouri’s Commissioner of Education...
