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There is an interesting split on the Left over the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms.

In total, 45 states including the District of Columbia (which is notorious for its failing public school system) have adopted the Common Core standards.

At the 2013 Modern Language Association meeting of English professors in Boston, nary a word was spoken against the president. Yet and still, one of his policies came in for some surprising criticism.

Will Common Core produce well-educated Americans or indoctrinated pacifist global citizens?

How is Common Core now being used in classrooms?

Original documents are presented in such a manner as to actually diminish them.

Publishers are promoting new Core-aligned materials.

If the federal government’s new education standards are so common, why have  few people seen them?

In their frustration with education reform, conservative theorists often fall prey to the same inclination of their putative opponents—nationalization.

The Obama Administration’s Common Core education initiative may be problematic for private Catholic schools as well as the public ones the program is designed for.

As the old saying goes, where there is smoke, there is fire. As Americans for Fair Treatment pointed out, data from The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) demonstrated that the longer period of time that a school district was closed to in-person classes, the worse students performed in basic mathematics and reading skills. In cities […]

A good read on the similarities between the two scandals: This all sounds a lot like the Atlanta public schools test-cheating scandal of 2013. The superintendent relied on cash incentives for raising test scores and believed the hyped numbers she (and the public) were shown. Teachers and administrators in all schools tried hard to raise […]