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 10,000 […]
Susan Jacoby Bungles Education Reform
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 McGuinn, […]
Have National Education Standards Arrive...
[Kevin R. Kosar is the author of the book Failing Grades: The Federal Politics of Education Standards.] 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 of […]
June 15, 2009 Story on Federal Funding o...
Reportedly, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced a $350 million initiative to help states develop common education standards. The announcment came at a June 14, 2009 “conference for education experts and 20 governors hosted by the National Governors Association and the James B. Hunt Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy.” The funds would […]
May 31, 2009 Washington Post Story on Pl...
According to this story: Forty-six states and the District of Columbia today will announce an effort to craft a single vision for what children should learn each year from kindergarten through high school graduation… [And] [It is being led] by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers… It appears that […]