Education Week

The Core Standards for Writing: Another Failure of Imagination?

When the 9/11 Commission reviewed factors that made our country vulnerable to the 2001 terrorist attacks, it found that “the most important failure was one of imagination.” Imagination, defined by one ...
NPR

What students lost since cursive writing was cut from the Common Core standards

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with historian Drew Gilpin Faust about her story in The Atlantic, "Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive." Sponsor Message : [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story incorrectly ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Literacy for Science: Exploring the Intersection of the Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core for ELA Standards: A Workshop Summary

HOW DO CCSS FOR ELA AND NGSS WORK TOGETHER? In her presentation, Susan Pimentel, a planning committee member, principal of Student Achievement Partners, and one of the developers of the Common Core ...
The Washington Post

Why the Common Core standards failed — and what it means for school reform

The Common Core State Standards was one of the biggest initiatives in decades aimed at changing public education — and like many school “reforms” in the era of high-stakes standardized testing, it did ...