Why 10th Grade Should Be the New Senior Year

• Ed Week

In 1983, "A Nation at Risk" focused political decisionmakers on the necessity of reframing public education into an accountability model designed to provide minimum standards of…

“Transforming” Public Schools: Enough already with an Overhyped Word!…

Recycling Poverty, Segregated Schools, and Academic Achievement: Then and Now

by Larry Cuban

Preparing for the Future: What Educational Assessment Must Do

by Randy Elliot Bennett — 2014

Background/Context: There is little question that education is changing, seemingly quickly and in some cases dramatically. The mechanisms through which individuals learn are shifting from paper-based ones to electronic media. Simultaneously, the nature of what individuals…

For all the hype surrounding the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), it seems unlikely to produce many changes actually visible on the ground, wrote Alia Wong in December 2015 for The Atlantic. Forty-two states and the District of Columbia already had waivers from No Child Left Behind (NCLB), so most students nationally were already learning under a system that had rejected much of NCLB's most onerous provisions. States with waivers were…

You are a global educator. It’s time to start thinking like one

Common Core curriculum resources – In this article in Principal Leadership, Illinois school librarian Mary Jo Matousek recommends these resources to support the implementation of Common Core standards:

• S.U.P.E.R Binders – www.tinyurl.com/ileadusuper 
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