Higher Standards Don’t Drown Out History & Social Studies Instruction, They Reinforce It
States’ implementation of rigorous, comparable education standards and assessments aligned to them has pushed out instruction of U.S. history, columnist Karol Markowicz claims in the New York Post. Markowicz quotes a Brooklyn teacher, who says, “All the pressure in lower grades is in math and English language arts because of the state tests and the...
A Closer Read: Literature Is Still Alive and Well in the Classroom
Writing for the Daily Caller, Jamie Gass of the Pioneer Institute argues that prior to adopting the Common Core, “literature was central to the Bay State’s nation-leading English standards and tests. As a result, from 2005 to 2013, Massachusetts students outperformed their counterparts from every other state.” All that was “traded away” when the state...