by Carol A. Josel | Sep 29, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “The formal structures that buttress the [Common Core] standards, and the related tests from two federally funded consortia, have eroded somewhat, as states reconsider their adoptions of the standards and reject the common tests. And common-core advocates...
by Carol A. Josel | Sep 1, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “Education is in something of a Catch-22. If they have standards, there will be dropouts among people who don’t want to do the work to reach the minimum levels. If they don’t have standards, they are just an assembly line and that is bad for...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 25, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “This entire accountability system that’s based on tests will crumble. It’s not a question of if. It’s a question of when.” ~ Dennis Van Roekel, president of NEA ** “I agree with the critics mostly. Testing is out of control, and...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 18, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “Critics wondered how a competition among states–which would create winners and losers–could create educational equity (given that winners were chosen by how slavishly they bowed to the Education Department’s reform tastes, and that the...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 11, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “The U.S. education policy world–the entire country, for that matter–is on a quest to increase the ranks of future innovators in science and technology. Yet the programs that get funded in K-12 education do not support students who are already...
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...
