Education Week’s site has another piece on the future of education, this one on assessements:
Led by Stanford University professor Linda Darling-Hammond, a panel of experts outlined a comprehensive system that includes summative and formative tests of higher-order thinking skills, reflecting a marketplace that they say places increasing value on such skills.
They urged a move away [...]
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A Fordham Institute’s report, Stars by Which to Navigate: Scanning National and International Standards in 2009, has brought The Common Core State Standards Initiative back into the news.
Proposed National Academic Standards Sidestep Debate
By Nick Anderson
The Common Core State Standards Initiative, as it is known, is an attempt to fashion de facto national standards for math [...]
