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Jal Mehta is Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he has received the Morningstar Award, presented annually to the best…
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The New York state Legislature has approved a measure that ends a mandate that teacher evaluations be based on the results of their students’ standardized…
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Common Core has been the starting point for many a lively, and at times agitated discussion. Next time on The Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll talk to a…
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New York state’s education commissioner said Tuesday that new state-specific learning standards will offer several improvements over the controversial…
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In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school…
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New learning standards being crafted for New York are likely to be similar to the Common Core standards they will replace, according to a new research…
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Reading is the core of the Common Core. For the most part, education cannot begin without a student first learning how to read.Today on the Best of Our…
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Third through eighth grade students finished Common Core English language arts exams this week. And with another year of testing comes another year of…
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New York Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia says the state has made major changes to the Common Core English and math assessments since last year when…
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The newly elected Chancellor to the Board of Regents, Betty Rosa, expressed grave doubts about the state’s use of standardized tests in the schools,…