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Byline: Laura Meckler New York state officials on Friday proposed new rules that would require private schools to prove they are meeting state education standards, a long-awaited response to allegations [...]

Byline: Jay Mathews As one of our most celebrated education reforms -- the Common Core State Standards -- sinks into oblivion, will we finally give up on big-time top-down plans [...]

(PRWeb) - NS4ed LLC, a rising leader in actionable research and professional guidance in education, and MetaMetrics, developer of the widely adopted Quantile Framework for Mathematics, announced a partnership today. [...]

Byline: Ricki Ginsberg;Kellee Moye Sit in any bookstore or library for enough time, and you'll hear an adult tell a child, 'You can't read that book -- it isn't at [...]

Byline: Jay Mathews Ken Cuccinelli II, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, responded to reporters' questions recently about Emma Lazarus's famous poem 'The New Colossus.' He wanted America [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Several years ago, I wrote about a successful venture capitalist and father of two in a post under this headline: 'Not Bill Gates: Meet Ted Dintersmith, an [...]

Accelerate Learning has expanded its partnership with MetaMetrics to integrate new benchmark assessments and Quantile measures into STEMscopes Math. STEMscopes Math is a core math curriculum that is aligned to [...]

Byline: Valerie StraussIn 2017, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos declared the controversial Common Core State Standards initiative dead, telling a radio show host that it had been eclipsed by the federal [...]

Byline: Donna St. George Maryland students made modest progress on the state's standardized tests for grades three through eight but lost ground on high school exams, according to data released [...]

Byline: Jessica Lahey Two years ago I walked into a car rental return center in Charlotte and interrupted Adrianette Felix mid-rant. 'I can't even help my own child do her [...]

Byline: Donna St. George Maryland officials plan to release results from the state's first Common Core-aligned exams beginning in October. State-level data for high school exams in English and algebra [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Thousands of public school parents around the country are opting their children out of taking high-stakes standardized tests this spring, tired of the emphasis on high-stakes testing [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss The Washington Post asked the two major presidential candidates -- Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump -- to respond to an identical series of questions about [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss For years now, the Common Core State Standards have been at the center of a national controversy over public education. Supporters say the standards, being used in [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss What has come to be known as the 'opt out' movement has become something of a a force in the education reform debate. Hundreds of thousands of [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss More than 100 education researchers in California have joined in a call for an end to high-stakes testing, saying that there is no 'compelling' evidence to support [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Donald Trump is wrong about the Common Core State Standards -- but, to be fair, he's not the only candidate running for president who is. Repeatedly -- [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Kathy Liu Sun is an assistant professor of math education at Santa Clara University who was a public high school math teacher for nine years in San [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss I've got to hand it to Arne Duncan. Today, Dec. 31, is his last day as U.S. education secretary, a job he's had for seven years. There [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss In recent days, education activists have become incensed with Rex Tillerson, the ExxonMobil chief executive, for remarks he made about public schools that were part of a [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Here is a letter to Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil's chairman and chief executive, from veteran educator Carol Burris, in response to remarks he made about public schools, which [...]

My grandson Ben, a first-grader, is the first member of our family to be taught under the Common Core State Standards, this decade's leading educational hot potato. He is doing [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss The recently released reading and math scores from the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress caused some consternation in the education world because they went down for [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Marion Brady is a veteran educator who has long argued that public education needs a paradigm shift, though not the same one pushed by school reformers who [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Bill Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, pouring a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss The Common Core State Standards initiative has sparked a fierce debate in the United States that has dominated the public education reform discussion for years. What has [...]

Byline: Lyndsey Layton Critics of the Common Core State Standards in Massachusetts are trying to get the increasingly controversial academic benchmarks on the 2016 state ballot, the first time voters [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Who is New York Mayor Bill de Blasio talking to about early childhood education? De Blasio (D) was on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' on Tuesday morning to talk [...]

Byline: Emma Brown The Common Core State Standards that most states have adopted have triggered plenty of political debate. But have they transformed how teachers are teaching -- and what [...]

Byline: Emma Brown Halfway through Thursday night's GOP presidential debate, Fox News moderator Bret Baier asked Jeb Bush to defend his support of the Common Core State Standards, national academic [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Thomas Scarice is the superintendent of Madison Public Schools in Connecticut. He has been highly critical of high-stakes test-based school reform, writing in a 2014 letter to [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Joseph Herbert is a math teacher at Wilson High School in Washington D.C. who was rated 'highly effective' in the 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years under the [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss This is the tenth in a continuing series of letters between two award-winning school principals, one who likes the Common Core State Standards and the other who [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who is expected soon to announce his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, has been inconsistent at best on the Common [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss This is the eleventh in a continuing series of letters between two award-winning school principals, one who likes the Common Core State Standards and the other who [...]

Byline: Emma Brown Five million public school students in Texas will begin using new social studies textbooks this fall based on state academic standards that barely address racial segregation. The [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss This is the eighth in a continuing series of letters between two award-winning school principals, one who likes the Common Core State Standards and the other who [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss This is the ninth in a continuing series of letters between two award-winning school principals, one who likes the Common Core State Standards and the other who [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Here's what New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said when he recently announced that his administration is moving to dump the Common Core State Standards after years of [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss While running for governor of Maryland last year, Republican Larry Hogan said that school reforms in the state were a 'train wreck.' Just after he took office [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Bill Gates famously spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop, implement and promote the now controversial Common Core State Standards. He hasn't stopped giving. In the [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss This is the sixth in a continuing series of letters between two award-winning school principals, one who likes the Common Core State Standards and the other who [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss This is the seventh in a continuing series of letters between two award-winning school principals, one who likes the Common Core State Standards and the other who [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Willingham has just written a new book, titled 'Raising Kids Who Read: What Parents and Teachers Can Do.' Over the next five days, I will publish a [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Scott Levy is a parent of children with attend New York state public schools. From February 2014 through February 2015, he was a senior research fellow at [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Hillary Clinton, the only declared Democrat running for president in 2016, was at a community college in Iowa the other day for a roundtable discussion about education. [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss This is the fifth in a continuing series of letters between two award-winning school principals, one who likes the Common Core State Standards and the other who [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss Kids go to school to learn stuff. Right? Not exactly, according to veteran education Marion Brady, who has long argued that public education needs a paradigm shift [...]

Byline: Kyle Schwartz When the Common Core State Standards were rolled out in Colorado in 2010, it was a challenge. At first, my colleagues and I at Doull Elementary in [...]

Byline: Lyndsey Layton Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a potential candidate for the 2o16 GOP nomination, announced yet another plan on Wednesday to try to pull his state from the K-12 [...]