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12 years after California adopted the Core Curriculum, vexing issues of math equity and achievement remain at SFUSD

California's bold plan dramatically expands the traditional definition of a public school, overhauling campuses into neighborhood centers to meet the needs of students.

Mayor Michael B. Hancock, Denver Arts & Venues and the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs have announced the winners of the 2021 Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Arts & Culture.

New research shows that endlessly testing teachers—a major plank of the education reform movement—has made no impact on student outcomes.

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San Francisco Unified resequenced its math course offerings, and now more students are tackling more advanced mathematics.

Biden shows once again that wins against critical race theory are never secure.

Hundreds of thousands of California students this spring will not be taking the state’s annual Smarter Balanced standardized tests, an EdSource survey of the state’s largest districts shows. The Smarter Balanced tests are aligned with the Common Core state standards for English language arts and math and are required by state and federal law each spring. Federal education officials in February told states that they must measure student progress this year, after waiving testing requirements ...

Teaching experience. An advocate for programs supporting underserved learners. A focus on tackling the digital divide and resource inequities laid bare by the pandemic. That’s the record that Miguel Cardona, Connecticut’s first Latino commissioner of education, would bring to the highest education office in the country, as multiple news reports say the Biden-Harris administration plans to name him as its nominee for Secretary of Education. (Update: The incoming administration has anno...

December 15, 2020 Many educators who think they are “reformers” would like performance-based tests Parents are being told that the first big issue for a new Secretary of Education in the Biden administration is deciding whether schools should test or not test students in 2020.  However, a much bigger issue is whether schools should continue to give Common Core-aligned tests (once national testing using Common Core-aligned tests resumes, as it is likely to do, in the absence of another form...