by Carol A. Josel | Nov 18, 2013 | Quotable Quotes
** “In an American society that values originality and creativity, it makes no sense to subject millions of students to ‘one-size-fits-all’ testing that inspires uniform skills and conformity.” ~ Katrin Park, former United Nations staff member...
by Carol A. Josel | Nov 12, 2013 | Making Education News
1) A Thomas B. Fordham Institute estimates that the total cost of implementing the Common Core standards will be between $3 billion and $12 billion depending on which approaches states use. 2) A Scholastic poll of more than 2,000 teachers finds that 75% of them think...
by Carol A. Josel | Nov 11, 2013 | Quotable Quotes
** “For years now, federal education policy has largely ignored the issue of poverty, with too many school reformers arguing that citing the effects of living in poverty as a big obstacle to achievement in schools is ‘an excuse.’ Schools, they say,...
by Carol A. Josel | Oct 15, 2013 | Making Education News
1) The U.S. ranked 30th in math literacy, 20th in science, and 14th in reading on the international PISA test. 2) Says the U.S. Department of Education, only 25% of our 52 million K-12 students are performing on par with those in the highest-performing countries. 3)...
by Carol A. Josel | Sep 23, 2013 | Quotable Quotes
** “Parents need to understand how fantastic these [common core] standards are going to be for their children because, for the first time, we actually started looking at college and career readiness. In many states, including mine, the old kindergarten math...
