On Wednesday, June 2, 2010, the Common Core Standards for English and mathematics were released. They can be downloaded from this web page: http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards. Sam Dillon of the New York Times writes, The standards, which took a year to write, have been tweaked and refined in recent weeks in response to some of the...
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On March 14, 2010, the New York Times ran an op-ed by Susan Jacoby on education and federalism. Jacoby has written widely and smartly on many subjects, but why the Times felt she should handle this subject is a mystery to me. Plenty of other thinkers could have done a bang-up job, like Patrick...
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Skimming the news, one might get the impression that the United States now has national education standards. “National School Standards, at Last,” smiled a March 14 New York Times editorial head. Although I count myself a supporter...
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According to the New York Times: Congress … will take up the Child Nutrition Act as soon as October…. The act, which is reauthorized every five years, provides $12 billion to pay for lunch and breakfast for 31 million schoolchildren. Additionally, The Department of Agriculture is expected to upgrade school food nutrition standards this...
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Sam Dillon of the New York Times writes Holding out billions of dollars as a potential windfall, the Obama administration is persuading state after state to rewrite education laws to open the door to more charter schools and expand the use of student test scores for judging teachers. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
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