Standards

With Senate confirmation of John King as U.S. education secretary, the Obama team has just 10 more months to advance its history-making education reform ag

A false debate rages among parents and even educators these days: play versus academic content. While there’s no question academic expectations for our you

Right now, in English classrooms at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School our students are doing amazing work. They are lawyers putting Lady Macbeth on tri

I began teaching as a mid-career change after many years in the private sector, and my business mindset followed me into the classroom: I expected measurab

I’m not bragging when I say, “My daughter is smart.” I started reading to her when she was a newborn. At four months old, she could turn the pages on a boo

I’m terrible at math. In seventh grade, I became aware of my poor math preparation when I entered a team math competition against other Catholic schools in

We recognize the importance of education, but what many may not recognize is the importance of certain skills and habits that are not commonly taught in to

We’ve finally started to receive our student-level results here in Colorado from the first year of PARCC tests, which were given way back in the halcyon da

There’s a lot of B.S. out there in the world about standards and standardized testing and it’s gotten to the point where for many liberals, misinformation