by Carol A. Josel | Oct 6, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “Arne Duncan brought the most ambitious reform agenda in years to the Department of Education–and a determination to use every lever of power to accomplish it. The results were stunning: In barely a year, more than 100 state laws were passed to open...
by Carol A. Josel | Sep 8, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “The U.S. Department of Education is legally prohibited from having any control over curriculum or instruction in the nation’s public schools, but nonetheless, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is a zealous advocate of the new Common Core Standards for...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 4, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “I think that ‘good teaching’ probably has many different dimensions. The coverage of standards-aligned content. The ability to improve other non-cognitive outcomes … These things may or may not be highly correlated. So I think that what...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 16, 2013 | Quotable Quotes
** “It’s fascinating to me that some of the pushback [to the Common Core] is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who–all of a sudden their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn’t quite as good as...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 9, 2013 | Quotable Quotes
** “Teaching materials aligned with the controversial national educational standards ask fifth graders to edit such sentences as ‘The president makes sure the laws of the country are fair,’ ‘The wants of an individual are less important than...
