Common-Core Commentaries
The widely adopted Common Core State Standards have provoked opinions and ideas from thought leaders, policymakers, and the educators who have to implement them. Browse their perspectives in this collection.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
Competency-Based Education Is Working
New Hampshire schools demonstrate how competency-based education offers a positive, skills-based approach to standards learning, writes Ronald A. Wolk.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
Low K-12 Standards Do a Disservice to All
The common core offers the promise of equal educational opportunity for poor and minority children, writes Wade Henderson.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
The Common-Core Standards' Undemocratic Push
By trying to block alternatives to the common core, its proponents have fueled a standards backlash, Williamson Evers says.
School & District Management
Opinion
Small K-12 Interventions Can Be Powerful
Large-scale and ambitious education initiatives hold no academic promises for students, writes researcher Hunter Gehlbach.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
Politics and the Common Core: Readers React
Education Week blogger Dave Powell's Commentary, in which he wrote that politics are harming the Common Core State Standards, elicited an avalanche of responses from readers.
Assessment
Opinion
Grading Standards Can Elevate Teaching
An accurate and fair grading system empowers teachers and students while also building trust, writes Joe Feldman.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
The Common Core Is Not Ready
Mike Schmoker argues that while we shouldn't abandon the standards, teachers need time to pilot them.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
The Common Core Is Working in My Classroom
Jeff Baxter, the Kansas State Teacher of the Year, writes that the standards have made him a better educator.
School & District Management
Opinion
Getting Beyond One 'Right Way' of K-12 Reform
We need to change the system so that some in K-12 can truly innovate, while others stick to tradition but improve incrementally, Ted Kolderie says.
Teaching
Opinion
Educating for the Bigger Picture
It doesn't take more work, just a shift in approach, for schools to teach systems thinking, write bestselling authors Daniel Goleman and Peter Senge.
School & District Management
Opinion
Next Steps for the Next Generation Science Standards
States that adopt the Next Generation Science Standards must declare a moratorium on high-stakes science testing, Arthur Camins writes.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
Without the Common Core in Oklahoma
Following the repeal of the standards, Oklahoma teacher Valeria Hughes wonders what's ahead for her state and her classroom.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
Politics Are Crushing the Standards
In spite of being wary of excessive standardization, Dave Powell questions why elected officials are rejecting the common core.
Assessment
Opinion
Here's Why We Don't Need Standardized Tests
Schools get better, more useful information from performance assessments and collaboration than from standardized exams, Greg Jouriles says.
