Last month the National Governor’s Association for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) released the Common Core State Standards, an attempt to standardize K-12 education across the U.S. To date, 48 of the 50 states have adopted the standards, Alaska and Texas electing not to adopt. The final [...]
In answer to the question in the post’s title, as an educator, I like to think we are, but it’s increasingly difficult to understand why–if it is the case that we are professionals–that teachers’ unions continue to oppose merit-based pay as per this article from the WSJ. The reader will be hard pressed to name [...]
“The origin of the fissure between lower and higher education in the United States stems, in part, from the laudable way the nation created education systems to deliver curriculum for both K-12 and higher education.” Thus begins Dr. Michael Kirst’s interesting brief history of the curricular chasm between high school preparation and university expectations. [...]
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