This morning, the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education and The Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, held the second in a series of three forums to examine the implementation of the Common Core State Standards in Massachusetts. At our […]
This non-ideological, side-by-side comparison of the Common Core State Standards and Massachusetts then under development K-12 English and math standards found that Common Core not only draws heavily from Massachusetts standards, but improves upon them by incorporating some of the […]
(Boston) — March 24, 2014 – Massachusetts business leaders today released a comprehensive assessment of the Commonwealth’s education system, sounding the alarm that student achievement has levelled off and the state risks falling behind global competitors who are outpacing the […]
A lot of ink has been spilled recently about the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) results released earlier this month. Massachusetts, Connecticut and Florida took the 2012 test as if these states were countries, so we have comparisons of […]
According to the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Massachusetts’ current state science standards are “clearly superior” to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) which were issued earlier this year. The Fordham report spurred a counter-statement by the National Science Teachers Association […]
According to the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Massachusetts’ current state science standards are “clearly superior” to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) which were issued earlier this year. The Fordham report spurred a counter-statement by the National Science Teachers Association […]