Race to Top Uber Analyst Smarick Bolts for NJ

Race to Top Uber Analyst Smarick Bolts for NJ

Common Standards Create Race to Top Snags in Two States

Common Standards Create Race to Top Snags in Two States

Teacher Magazine: Teaching Secrets: Don't Cripple With Compassion

Teacher Magazine: Teaching Secrets: Don't Cripple With Compassion

Hawaii, Maryland Tentatively OK Common Standards

Hawaii, Maryland Tentatively OK Common Standards

Seeking an End to the 'Massachusetts Madness'

Seeking an End to the 'Massachusetts Madness'

Mass. Group Seeks Common-Standards Communications

Mass. Group Seeks Common-Standards Communications

This group is led by Sandra Stotsky who has attacked NJ and is a hired gun by the NJ anti-reformists.

Panel to Translate Research Into Policy Proposals for 12th Grade Preparedness

Panel to Translate Research Into Policy Proposals for 12th Grade Preparedness

WANTED: An Apollo Program for Math

WANTED: An Apollo Program for Math

Keith Devlin, Stanford University

The US ranks much worse than most of our economic competitors in the mathematics performance of high school students.

We now have the knowledge to turn that around. We could raise the level of mathematics performance across the board, within a single school generation, so that we are number one in the world. All it would take is a one-time, national investment of $100 million over a five-year period. That’s what it would cost to build and put in place a system that could achieve that change, with the existing school system and the existing teachers. Once built, that system would be self-sustaining.

Education Week: Beyond the Rhetoric of National Standards

Education Week: Beyond the Rhetoric of National Standards

Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover | Video on TED.com

Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover | Video on TED.com

The NJ State Department of Education needs to watch this (as do the anti-reformists).

Then again, maybe the NJDOE are the anti-reformists?